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Tent Shows and Temples. In Oakland young Grauman saw a cowboy revivalist vainly holding forth in a tent. Sighed the cowboy: "They don't want the Lord." Said Grauman: "I want the tent." He set it up in the middle of San Francisco as Grauman's National Theater, using church pews for seats, and did so well that he finally built a corrugated-iron edifice around it "and never even lost a matinee in the process." Soon he was operating other theaters...
...choir on the side. So far, husky, blue-eyed Robert Shaw has stuck to choruses, never attempted to conduct a symphony orchestra. But symphonic bigwigs from Leopold Stokowski to Sergei Koussevitzky have offered to teach him how. Self-consciously modest, yet with a touch of the fire-&-brimstone revivalist, he refuses to be rushed. Says he: "Up until the past year I felt more like a cheerleader than a choral director. Dawgonnit! I don't feel I have any manifest destiny...
Although he is profane and frequently ribald away from his mike, Mr. Anthony when wired for sound is as full of virtue as a revivalist. Ladies periodically knocked around by their husbands, men whose wives tend to wander indiscriminately, are uniformly advised by Mr. Anthony that life is beautiful and love will conquer all. The ill winds that blow through his microphone bring Mr. Anthony an estimated $3,000 a week...
...celebrate while there was still time, Pennsylvania had anticipated its actual 200th anniversary by 15 years. It claims birth in 1740, when a charity school and "house of public worship" opened at Fourth and Arch Streets to provide a pulpit for George Whitefield, famed Anglican revivalist preacher. But not until 1749 did Ben Franklin get Philadelphians to establish an academy in the Whitefield Chapel, not until 1755 did it actually become a college...
Revivals are as much a phenomenon of U. S. civilization as quilting bees or rail splitting. Georgia has been a revivalist stronghold ever since pioneer Evangelists John Wesley and George Whitefield saved souls there in the 1730s. But lately revivals have not done so well, even in Georgia. Few years ago famed Old Salem Campground, 32 miles southeast of At lanta, a scene of Methodist evangelistic meetings since 1828, had to turn interdenominational to survive. Last week, as it wound up a rousing ten-day camp meeting, Salem seemed to have hit the sawdust trail for a comeback...