Word: religion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...astronomer, so the authors narrate, has found a comet about to cross the face of the sun. The world will be plunged into a frozen darkness that will abolish all the living. The reaction to this horrible eventuality of a group of Bowery bums is the thesis. Some get religion and some get drunk. In the centre of it all is a little scrub girl on whose tortured mind the glory of dying and the majesty of immortality slowly burst. Then when the astronomer's mistake is published, she cannot endure life and kills herself. This part is played...
H.M.S. Pinafore. The Shuberts have done their best in this mass attraction. People who make a religion of Gilbert and Sullivan will tell you that it is certainly the biggest and one of the best presentations of the opera given in these parts for many seasons. It matters little that the satire was created to shame certain unsalty potentates in the British admiralty nearly half a century ago. The wit is still spry. Of the lyrics and the music, the yellowing files for 50 years are full of eulogy. There remains only the manner of the recreation. There...
...told 110 Protestant Episcopal Bishops, in effect, to mind their business? (See RELIGION...
...Because his wife went over to. Catholicism, what did the; Anglican Bishop of Ontario do? (See RELIGION...
...Reared in the Greek Orthodox faith were the five living children of what Protestant and what Catholic? (See RELIGION...