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Thus do the Brothers Warner introduce their cinema version of Author Hartzell Spence's biography of his father (One Foot in Heaven). It is a notable adaptation. The lively, humane, very worldly doings of Parson Spence have been transferred to celluloid with intelligence and charm; for the first time Hollywood has created a U.S. pastor with marrow in his bones. Human and humorous, Heaven is a bracing pastor's-eye-view of the Midwest U.S. of two wars...
First lesson the parson's wife learns is that the parsonage belongs to the ladies of the congregation. She cannot so much as remove a boar's head from the living-room wall without causing talk. Nor can she wear fine clothes; that would be unseemly, might mortify the good ladies. As her children grow up, their problems multiply hers. Says her teen-age son: "The worst part [of] being a minister's son [is] it ruins my technique with women." His sister has the same trouble in reverse...
...prude, the parson wisely reinterprets the Methodist Discipline to fit changing times. Discovering that his son has been to a movie (forbidden), he takes him to another, to point out what there is in the picture that is bad for him to see. The picture (a 24-year-old William S. Hart film, The Silent Man) so thoroughly wows the pastor that he uses the movie as a text for his Sunday sermon...
...youngest sprig ever to win a scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music. At 14, she took on 30 pupils of her own. At 16 she became a piano professor, under Pianist Myra Hess at Tobias Matthay's famed London music school. Later she married an Anglican parson, the Reverend H. Cashel Thomas, now vicar of St. Philip's in London...
...Scarsdale had entered Smith that September. That seemed a good many Smith freshmen from one small town. Mr. Price leafed through his parish list, found that 260 boys & girls were away at school and college, most of them in New England. Why not pay them a visit? Lots of parsons visit lots of schools every year, reasoned Rector Price, but few youngsters get personal calls from their home-town parson. When his young people were home at Christmas, he asked if they would like such a pastoral visit. They all thought it would be fine. So last week blond, energetic...