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This summer Rachel McDowell got a three-weeks' vacation instead of her usual two. She resolved to go to Italy "to kneel before the Sovereign Pontiff," Pope Pius XI. From one of her most useful Manhattan contacts, Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes, Miss McDowell begged a letter smoothing the way. She did not neglect to pray, both before and afterward, at the high altar of St. Patrick's Cathedral. How Presbyterian McDowell's prayers were answered she told last week in an account of her trip in the Catholic News. Excerpts...
...orchestra played rousing sacred music. A reformed jailbird, a one-time drug-addict, a converted cowpuncher, a ''reformed Presbyterian deacon" gave testimonials. A brief, fierce sermon whipped up the pulses of 1,500 people in the arched, open-walled tabernacle. One by one they hurried up to kneel in straw and sawdust by a long bench-like altar. Rawboned, hot-eyed men lifted clasped hands high in prayer. Women wailed, waved their arms, chanted gibberish. Small bewildered children noisily imitated their elders. The din rose, night after night, week after week, while plain people nearby stirred crossly...
...KNEEL TO THE RISING SUN-Erskine Caldwell-Viking...
Critics of Author Caldwell who had begun to think that his zany style was effective largely because of its Rabelaisian grossness last week were thinking again, after reading Kneel to the Rising Sun, his latest collection of short stories. As in all Caldwell books, the phallic content was high-though not so gamy as to attract the attention of the censor-but the best of these 17 stories were more cathartic than aphrodisiac. Some of them...
Best in the book, and well worthy of inclusion in a U. S. anthology, is the title story, Kneel to the Rising Sun: A spineless sharecropper, whose landlord persistently half-starves him and browbeats him, as he does all his tenants, one night finds his old father missing from the cabin. To help him search he rouses a Negro neighbor; together they find the old man's body, half-devoured by their landlord's hogs. When they wake the landlord there is a quarrel between him and the Negro, which is the excuse the landlord has been waiting...