Word: rectorate
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...opening scene of the play, Arthur Szathmary, a saintly rector, and his wife, Miriam Hurwitt, who has a woodenleg, are discussing the advantages and disadvantages of being visited with angels...
...force of evil. She glories in her struggle against the overwhelming odds on the other side. In fact, her arguments are so convincing, her faith so positive, her struggle against the insidious forces of good so sincere, that she casts a doubt into the solid mind of the good rector. It has never occurred to him before that it is so possible for the positive good and the negative evil to be reversed. Szathmary is great as the sorely perplexed churchman...
After a year the rector has died. Then Robert McKee dominates a scene as the judging angel. The dialogue is magnificent, and magnificently read. We learn that in after life no such petty thing as justice is allowed to interfere with the course...
There are three subtly hilarious dialogues to close out the play between the dainty little devil and the soul of the rector, the devil and the judging angel, and the devil and Minnie, with the blue-stockinged, red slippered appendage new well under control...
...quickly as if she had overheard the salesman, Brooklyn's Assistant School Superintendent Lizzie Rector picked up the challenge. Despite the typewriter interests, cried she, handwriting must never be driven from the schools...