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...owner of Circleville's leading department store, Lewis ran away from home to join Dr. Cooper's Herb Medicine Show as clarinet soloist. Later he led a parade of bloodhounds with the Gentry Brothers Dog and Pony Show. In 1917 he got a Manhattan job at Rector's with Earl Fuller's band...
This was a poor imitation of the sensational Original Dixieland Jazz Band, then making the word jazz famous. But after two years Lewis left Rector's with a reputation for the musical clowning that has remained his stock in trade for a generation. It was on the curb outside Rector's that he acquired the battered, furry top hat which W. C. Fields later taught him to twirl with uncanny virtuosity. Lewis won it in a crap game from the driver of a hansom...
Since his ordination 18 years ago, Chicago-born Dr. Pardue has held four parishes. In all of them he has been active in civic affairs, youth work, interfaith cooperation. While rector of St. James's Church, Hibbing, Minn., he served as chaplain of the B'nai B'rith lodge (there was no rabbi in the town...
Best known of the arrested pastors is 45-year-old Kaj Munk, rector of Vedersoe in West Jutland. He is not only famed for his preaching ("like a rain of sparks from a lightning rod") but is also Denmark's No. 1 playwright (Cant, An Idealist, The Word...
...cinema star last Sunday to honor one of Hollywood's outstanding characters. The Rev. Neal Dodd sang High Mass, marking the 36th anniversary of his ordination in the Episcopal Church's priesthood. For a quarter of a century nervous, bespectacled, balding Father Dodd, 64, has been rector of the parish (224 communicants). He is also an actor, as well as technical adviser and father confessor to the film industry...