Word: monsignor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...friends in the same easy posture he always managed on the concert stage, his lined face wearing its wistful smile. He felt, he said, "like I had just listened to the obituary of my artistic career." Perhaps the eulogies, by his longtime friends, Commentator H. V. Kaltenborn and Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen, had been premature; but then, his had been the kind of life that had moved the New York Times last week to call Fritz Kreisler what in fact he was: "A great human being, one of our most magnificent contemporaries...
Considerably more worldly than otherworldly in approach, The Velvet Glove is neatly dotted with church figures (including Walter Hampden as a monsignor), pleasantly dusted with conventual and clerical badinage. It is the brighter for the deft warfare between John Williams and Grace George, who with all the airiness of a butterfly can impose the sting of a bee. But the play, a theatrical ladyfinger from the start, gets milder, thinner and crumblier as it proceeds...