Word: rector
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Trouble Along the Way (Warner) travels a well-worn screen route along which moviegoers will encounter some fairly familiar figures: a humorously crotchety rector (Charles Coburn) of an impoverished Roman Catholic college, a cynical ex-football coach (John Wayne) who comes to the school's rescue by trying to put together a winning gridiron team, a pretty probation officer (Donna Reed) who, at the instigation of Wayne's unpleasant ex-wife (Marie Windsor), is investigating whether Wayne's eleven-year-old daughter (Sherry Jackson) is being neglected by her father. By the time Trouble Along...
Last week he was playing Manhattan's Latin Quarter, right across Broadway from where Rector's used to be. It was at Rector's in 1917 that Ted made his first hit in the big time, and his family the Friedmans of Circleville, Ohio, finally learned what their wandering boy was up to. And it was outside Rector's one night that Ted acquired his famous topper in a crap game with a cabbie named Mississippi. It has been part of his act ever since...
When he was four, his playthings were banished to the attic "so that he should learn that there were more serious things in life than toys." At the age of five, when he developed such "sinful propensities" as a love of lollipops, his rector uncle was called in to flog his bare bottom with a riding crop. Because he became understandably fond of a pet cat, it was taken from him and hanged...
...self-imposed isolation, the rector's convictions grew into eccentricities. The rectory grounds became a small wilderness, the rectory itself rundown and rat-ridden. The rector refused to see anyone without four days notice-in writing. His only steady contact with the parish was Burt Mefton, a handyman who brought him his groceries. The rector lived on oatmeal, apples and bread. He sent his tea and candy rations to needy parishioners...
...Black Carriages. Week in & week out, though, the rector held services. Each Sunday he unlocked the church doors, robed himself and preached two services to the bare 13th century walls. He sang the hymns himself, and composed his sermons with care. Occasionally curious visitors would drop in to hear him. To supplement their attendance, he placed cards in the first six pews bearing the names of his predecessors-Warleggon rectors since the days of the Normans. "I am not sure I do not prefer my congregation of ghosts," he would say. "They cannot object to any innovation I make...