Word: revivalistic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps recalling too that TV's other inspirational spellbinder Bishop Fulton Sheen had begun his electronic tenure opposite Milton Berle and was still going strong last season against I Love Lucy, Revivalist Graham returned to the TV pulpit this weekend more streamlined and confident than ever. Eschewing the hell-fire-and-brimstone theatrics of his historical predecessors, he pitched his sermon just as he had for 24 consecutive nights to huge Garden crowds. He also added to his TV experience this week with Sunday appearances on Meet the Press and Steve Allen's Sunday night vaudeville hour. Explained...
...Ernie so fine that they have made him the only newcomer to Nielsen's sacrosanct Top Ten this year. His canonization among the highly mortal immortals of TV has been a triumph-if that is the word-of manner. Ford has the warmth and expansiveness of a Baptist revivalist, some of the relentless cracker-barrel wit of an Alben Barkley or Will Rogers. No hayseed, he has parlayed his deep-dish Southern accent and soft, self-deprecatory ways into hard money. Says his manager: "He appeals to old people with his hymns and spiritual songs. He has a tremendous...
...finest and most amusing moments in the play is John Coe's portrayal of a revivalist minister. Likewise played with a subtle sense of humour is the shipping clerk by Michael Linenthall. Patricia Leatham as a waitress who is our hero's extra-curricular love handles her role with a wonderful fay tenderness, Richard Gediman as president delivers a fine set speech on the wonders of the "industrial South...
...fatherly lecture to the assembled villagers. His message: Communists are your enemies; report them instead of supporting them. (Said an aborigine leader: "Such a big man. Such a big voice. No wonder he is Sultan.") Some times the Sultan asked Communists in the crowd to step forward, like a revivalist calling on sinners to repent. But there the resemblance ended. The Sultan danced, sang and feasted with the villagers far into the morning, then retired, often in the company of a village maiden...
...drawing 6,000 Miamians nightly, he saw no healing efforts, wrote a tolerantly favorable story. But the next night he witnessed some "cures"-and started digging. On the Herald's front page he showed that there had been no real changes in the physical conditions of Miamians the revivalist had claimed to cure. Taft found, for example, that a crippled woman who had ostentatiously flung aside a pair of crutches had never ordinarily used them. Taft also showed that Coe stood to clear $30,000 in profit from his Miami appearances...