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...another room-not by hymns but music which he himself had loved. A clergyman performed his offices in the briefest, simplest manner. Two of my father's most intimate friends spoke their own intimate words. The "funeral" was over. We passed tea and cakes. . . . Net cost - everything: $90. . . . Pagan? Who says so? HENRY E. BREDEMEIER Kenmore...
...Last year I attended my first funeral, and I was dumfounded at the pagan ritual it turned...
...April 1943, the German masters of The Netherlands ordered the University of Nijmegen (rhymes with sly pagan) to sign a loyalty pledge. It was promptly returned-unsigned-to occupation headquarters. Punishment came swiftly: many professors and students were dragged off to concentration and labor camps, and the university closed its doors...
...Pagan Survival. "The undertakers," writes Randall, "offered some complaint about cutting into their incomes. 'We still list $100 funerals, but we can't make any money on that kind of business,' one explained. ... A florist . . . voiced the most pointed complaint. 'You [ministers],' he said, 'want to take this sum that is to be saved and use it for your own purposes. You ought to consider if there aren't other ways in which you can derive income from funerals without interfering with our business...
...Goldovsky's staging surpassed all his previous efforts. The sets, designed by Richard Rychtarik, ranged from a shipwreek on a rocky coast to the gloomy interior of a pagan cave-temple and included the effective device of magic lantern projection on a backdrop. Mr. Goldovsky made excellent use of the stage in his direction of the principals and chorus and in his use of a small but good-looking ballet, reaching the peak of his imagination in the storm scene and the finale, a would-be sacrifice of Idamantes in the temple. Leo Van Witsen's costumes were also outstanding...