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...political parson is Dr. Hart. "I promise to take an interest in the civic affairs of Boston," he told Trinity when he went there, "but not to preach about them." Politics, economics and the war find small place in his sermons. Says he: "There is so little time to bring the comfort and guidance of religion into the daily lives of my congregation . . . [it] cannot be done if one's theme is political...
...Muhlenberg (family-greatest in the history of U.S. Lutheranism-will be re-enacted at Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pa. The occasion: the 200th anniversary of the arrival in the U.S. of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg (1711-1787), sire of Washington's general and ancestor of many another famed parson, statesman and educator. He was the real founder and patriarch of the Lutheran Church in the U.S., was called Gachs-wunga-roracks by his Indian friends because "his words went through the hearts of men like a saw through a knotty plank...
With a cast that donated their services and worked in perfect harmony, Shaw's comedy (of a radiant woman fought over by her stuffy parson of a husband and her mooning poet of a suitor) had an acquired warmth as well as a residual wit. In the title role which she first played in New York in 1924 and again in 1937, Katharine Cornell was this time much more human, much less conscious of her own radiance. Raymond Massey and Dudley Digges made Candida's sermonizing husband understandable, her scoundrelly father amusing. As the angular Prossy, Mildred Natwick...
...only parson paratrooper in the U.S. His formal title is Lieut. Raymond S. Hall, and he is chaplain (Episcopal) of the Provisional Parachute Group at Fort Benning...
...Parson of Panamint" is an attempt to put Charlie Ruggles in a character role. This isn't the old Charlie you used to know: he has thrown away his delayed response and his bewildered expression, and emerges as a philosophical sort of fellow, the hero of the picture. Panamint is a town (not a chewing gum), and Mr. Ruggles is its boss (not its parson). Though it starts rather slowly, with a gloomy sort of flashback, it soon gets moving and hits a quick and gripping pace...