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While awaiting the first curtain of Quadrille, the playgoer can glance over the program and figure out in the main what form the play is going to take. Listed on the bill are a Reverend Edgar Speven, a Gwendolyn (His Daughter) and a Catchpole. There is also a noblewoman with an awesome surname and a placid given one, The Marchioness of Heronden (Serena). Since this part is played by Lynn Fontanne and since the author is Noel Coward, the playgoer can settle back with complacence. The play may be several rungs down from Wilde, but it will...
...headed into the camp in his station wagon. The way wa's barred by a score of bare-chested male nudists (trousered for the occasion) and one comely, sun-suited female, Mrs. June Lange, the convention's pressagent. Like all other visitors, Mrs. Lange explained, the reverend doctor must take off his clothes so he could feel at home...
...Most Reverend Richard J. Cushing, Archibishop of Boston, told a presidential commission studying immigration problems in 1952, that: "The...discrimination and undemocratic features of the McCarran-Walter law, are to my mind a grave potential threat to our domestic development and our international leadership...
...young Negro who came to call on the Reverend John Miller Dickey of Oxford, Pa. one day in 1852 had an unusual request to make. He wanted a college education so that he could go into the ministry, but though Oxford is above the Mason-Dixon Line, there was no college in the vicinity that would take him. Pastor Dickey decided that something should be done: two years later he managed to persuade the state to charter the first Negro institution of higher learning...
Also in a rural setting, but light in content is Robert Cowley's "How Reverend Goodman Brought the Good News." Written as a country youth's narrative, the story sketches a minister's efforts to bring a pair of town dissolutes to church. Cowley manages to weave a good many colloquialisms into the piece and to catch the naivete of his narrator's impressions, but frequently his sentences are stiff and uneven...