Word: rectorate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hollywoods swing to swing is again evidenced here, for Louis Armstrong is hitting high C and higher in a better government crusade backed by Peaches O'Day (Miss West), with Edmund Lowe as the mayoral candidate George Rector appears in films for the first time as host in his own famous restaurant...
...romance," said Evangelist Utley in explaining why she married in a church not of her own denomination. She instructed the Little Church's organist, however, to play her favorite revival songs - Rose of Sharon, In My Heart There Rings a Melody-during the ceremony. Rev. Randolph Ray, urbane rector of the Little Church, appeared pleased at the chance to officiate for a "lady evangelist." Afterwards Mr. and Mrs. Langkop went to Old John Street Methodist Church, in downtown Manhattan, where she slipped on a black robe, assisted at the wedding of her 21-year-old sister Ovella to Robert...
...last week, in smart Calvary Episcopal Church in Pittsburgh's East End, Westinghouse engineers installed a wireless telephone and three transmitters, announced that they were sending "up to a radius of 2,000 miles" on station KDKA the complete Calvary service. Only two months before, Calvary's Rector Edwin Jan van Etten had listened to the world's first radio broadcast, on KDKA-the Harding-Cox Presidential returns...
Last week on the anniversary of this pioneer broadcast in Calvary Church- largest Episcopal Church between New York and the Mississippi-Rector van Etten again broadcast on KDKA. He organized a choir with numerous boys whose fathers had sung in the 1921 service, had it accompanied by the organist of the original broadcast. An extempore sermonizer, Dr. van Etten found the notes of his first broadcast, attempted to reconstruct his 17-year-old words, ad libbing as well on the wonders of radio...
...many ways the keynote of Dr. Guthrie's career, for he has always been more of an artist than a theologian (for some years he was an itinerant lecturer on literature), and as much of an individualist as an artist. Because the life tenure of an Episcopalian rector can be terminated only for grave cause, and because he was careful never to set down any of his indiscreet utterances in print, he weathered all the storms that blew around his bushy locks...