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...Evangelist (Cowley Fathers), oldest (1865) order of priests in the Anglican communion. Present last week to lay the cornerstone of a chapel dedicated to St. Mary, Mother of God, were Episcopal Suffragan Bishop Samuel Gavitt Babcock of Massachusetts, pious Architect Ralph Adams Cram, Glassman Charles Jay Connick, able Organist Everett Titcomb, and Rev. Spence Burton, U. S. superior of the black-cassocked Cowley Fathers...
...Geneva, drew the most eager audience for a speech which rose entirely above Italy and Ethiopia, a land which Orator Blum succeeded in mentioning only once. There was no one theme in Premier Blum's discourse, but there were many themes, and he sounded them like an organist pulling out random stops here & there with a not unmelodious effect. "The world is filled with menace. The shadows grow heavy," cried Leon Blum. "Mystery enshrouds the armaments of certain States. . . . They are shaking the dice...
When Mrs. Henry Ford was an apple-cheeked Michigan farm girl named Clara Bryant, she used to go on Sunday mornings to St. Paul's Memorial Episcopal Church in Detroit, accompanied by her grandfather who stoked the church fires, dusted the pews. First organist at St. Paul's was Sara Angelina Waffle, who on severe winter days had her old-fashioned pump organ pushed up next to the stove to prevent her fingers from becoming numb. Frequently in the course of a sermon Organist Waffle would sidle off her bench to put a stick of wood...
...Just As I Am Without One Plea. This time, though, she did not have to exert herself at all because there was a new organ in St. Paul's, a Hammond Electric, inscribed: "To the Glory of God and as a tribute and memorial to Sara Angeline Waffle, organist of this parish for the first 35 years of its life. This organ is presented to St. Paul's Episcopal Church by her friend, Mrs. Henry Ford - Easter...
...Nice, France, Sweden's King Gustaf V summoned Mouth Organist Larry Adler, demanded "something lively," enthusiastically applauded Yankee Doodle, chuckled at The Sidewalks of New York...