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Church councils in England were busy last fortnight with a small but distressing problem: the practice of confetti-throwing at weddings. Chief objection to it: it litters up the church. Rev. E. G. Hall, rector of Friern Barnet, thought he had found a way to control confetti. He would charge five shillings ($1.25) extra per wedding, to be forfeit should any confetti be thrown. At Hatneld, Herts., it was proposed to charge ten shillings. Pontificated Rev. Oscar Stanway, vicar of Claygate, Surrey: "Confetti-throwing is meaningless and messy!" Even worse, said he, is the prevalent practice of throwing imitation rose...
...party scene were developed two scenes of New York night life, new and old. In the new, placed after the old to clear lumpy throats, a gangster gunfight broke up the proceedings in an ultrasmart night-box run by a pansy. In the old-style scene, an evening at Rector's before Prohibition was reproduced to the last sparkle on Diamond Jim Brady's shirtfront and Lillian Russell's dog-collar...
...Granville Mercer Williams, rector of the Church of St. Mary the Virgin . . . S.T.D...
...Rome a visiting U. S. Catholic may pray in the church of his U. S. cardinal (every cardinal, wherever situated, is a priest of some church in Rome); he may contact the Vatican for an audience through Monsignor Burke, Rector of the North American College; but if playgrounds be his hobby he must go to Knight Hearn. Onetime Supreme Knight, European Commissioner of the K. of C. during the War, he is today the friend of every Roman child who wants to play on grounds or swim in the Tiber. Off the K. of C.'s handsome Tiber platform...
...Samuel Moor Shoemaker Jr., rector of Calvary Church, one of Princeton's first Buchmanites, declared: "Frank Buchman . . . did more than any other man to bring me to Christ...