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...cold day just before Christmas in 1870, two actors went to Rev. William Tufnell Sabine, rector of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Atonement at Madison Avenue & 28th Street in Manhattan. One of them (though Mr. Sabine did not recognize him) was the great Joseph Jefferson, who had been playing Rip Van Winkle since 1859 in various versions. He explained that his old friend George Holland had died; this was Mr. Holland's son Edward; they wished to arrange for the funeral. Then he added that Mr. Holland had been a well-known oldtime actor. Mr. Sabine...
...Rector and founder of the Church of the Transfiguration near Fifth Avenue on East 29th Street was Rev. Dr. George Hendric Houghton. Kindly, white-bearded, he was a pronounced Anglo-Catholic, a follower of the Oxford Movement. Only once, in his youth, had he attended a theatre (to his death he never saw Actor Jefferson on the stage). But he had performed funerals for actors. He agreed readily to do so for Actor Holland. The Press heard of the incident, amplified it. Out of the welter of discussion which ensued throughout the U. S., there emerged the name & fame...
Business Done. The House of Deputies reelected Dr. Ze Barney Thome Phillips, chaplain of the U. S. Senate and rector of Washington's Epiphany Church, to be its president; Dr. Carroll Melvin Davis of New York, domestic secretary of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, to be secretary...
...that Editor Harry Payne Burton goes Oct. 1 to succeed outgoing Editor Ray Long of Cosmopolitan. (Also it revives a rumor that Cosmopolitan may likewise reduce its price from 25 cents to 10 cents.) But the Physical Culture which was executed by Editor Burton had been conceived by Di rector Oursler. Highbrowed, spectacled. Editor Oursler is 38, wrote his first play when he was 9. At 16 he was a reporter on the Baltimore American, at 19 its music critic. He was a piano salesman, law clerk, professional magician before hitting his stride as a novelist and play wright. (Plays...
Being Bishop Coadjutor of a diocese in the Protestant Episcopal Church means lots of work, little money, little kudos- unless you are an astute politician. In seclusion last week the rector of a rich, socialite church was trying to decide whether he wanted to be a Bishop Coadjutor. The diocese of Connecticut had none; since 1928 Bishop Edward Campion Acheson had been his own Coadjutor. Now he had found he needed an assistant. A diocesan convention was held in Christ Church Cathedral. Hartford. Chief candidates were High Churchman Rev. Dr. Samuel Smith Drury, rector of St. Paul's School...