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...Streck became known unofficially as the "Diplomatic Pastor." He was all set to officiate, and the U. S. Embassy servants were set for the most lavish party since U. S. Ambassador Bullitt was transferred from Moscow to Paris (TIME, Sept. 7), when in the dead of night last week Parson Streck "disappeared...
...reviewer confidently expected a sorry play acted by a cast of second-rate stock-company players, but he was pleasantly surprised. The parts of the small-town liberal editor, Doremus Jessup, of sharp-tongued Lorinda Pike, uncouth, imbecilic Shad LeDue, capitalistic Francis Tasbough, suave, silken Commandant Swan and sanctimonious Parson Prang are filled competently, even played momentarily with flashes of insight. It is no fault of theirs that the audience occasionally laughs in the wrong places; rather it is the fault of the medium, for the use of exaggeration and caricature is at all times, terrifying rather than ridiculous...
Except for Parson Prang, the political characterizations are weak. The none too obvious but nevertheless pertinent implications about the present administration have, of course, been totally disregarded, much to the detriment of the story. And then, too, the dramatic presentation makes overmuch of a buffoon of "Buzz" Windrip...
...Birmingham one female and three male Holy Rollers safely handled a rattler from which, it later was revealed, the fangs had been drawn at the behest of their Rev. Dewey L. Dotson. Famed in the rural districts of Georgia, the Carolinas and Virginia is George Hensley, a cracker parson who has been publicly snakebitten 200 times, is apparently immune to serpent venom...
After the New Deal, What? (Macmillan, $2) by Norman Thomas. To modern economic sinners the Socialist Presidential nominee, a onetime Presbyterian parson, preaches a purgatory of Fascism, a paradise of Socialism. Voters who agree with his rational analysis of current confusions may be less easily convinced than in 1932 that the Socialist ticket offers the best...