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...Nazis are beasts: they send aged mothers the ashes of their executed sons, violate young girls, bully a daughter into offering to prostitute herself in order to save her father, and savagely torture men for mere amusement. But one man remained unconquered, dying for what he believed in: Pastor Hall...
...pikestaff-plain chapels which Methodism's Founder John Wesley built had no organ, no steeple, no bell. Most Methodist churches are still on the bare side. But Christ Church's pastor, Dr. Ralph Washington Sockman, preacher on NBC's National Radio Pulpit, is all for decoration. Says he: "In the past two decades Protestant churches have made a marked advance in the quality of their church architecture . . . with emphasis on the altar rather than on the pulpit. The theatre type of auditorium is giving way to the stately nave...
...Feature Writer Douglas Gilbert of the New York World-Telegram. His book, American Vaudeville, Its Life and Times -though sometimes more of a catalogue than a history, gives a detailed account of the variety show from its rough beer-hall days through its great era when Italian Singer Tony Pastor purified it, to its death. It is a must book for rememberers of such vaudeville chains as the Keith-Albee, Orpheum, Sylvester Z. Poli, Alexander Pantages, Gus Sun, Sullivan & Considine, Fred Mozart, Kohl & Castle, Mike Shea. Sample items from the past of a passing art form...
...Tony Pastor, born in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, made his singing debut in 1842, aged 6, at meetings of the Hand-in-Hand Temperance Society. One of the most popular themes of his, and others', early vaudeville songs was the plight of Labor...
...Seattle, Pastor J. O. Brekke of Zion Church of the Lutheran Brethren, who caught the heaviest salmon to qualify for the Sept. 29 salmon derby (TIME, Oct. 14), recently fished on Sunday, caught nothing, returned in time to confess to his congregation: "It has become clear to me that I allowed the flesh to triumph . . . and suffered a spiritual defeat...