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Prof. Phelps took his text for his inaugural sermon from Thornton Wilder (The Bridge of San Luis Key) rather than scripture. "Wilder says that a revival of religion must be accompanied by a revival of rhetoric. . . . The public finds it difficult to forgive Arnold Bennett for writing trash when he is capable of much better work...
First Presbyterian (Fifth Avenue at 12th Street). It was here that Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, ordained Baptist, preached his famed Anti-fundamentalist sermon which might have split the Presbyterian church...
After services in the Baptist Church at Charlottesville-conducted by a Presbyterian, with a sermon by a Methodist * -the President shook hands with Governors Angus W. McLean of North Carolina and Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia, who escorted him to the mansion of President Edwin A. Alderman of the University of Virginia for a buffet lunch. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson was there. President Coolidge twitted Governor Byrd about a cartoon in the Richmond Times-Dispatch which showed a Southern.Colonel peering through a knothole in the fence of a football field. A sign on the fence said: "Football, Thanksgiving Day-University...
...Evidently the Rev. Dr. Malcolm James Mc-Leod, pastor of the Collegiate Reformed Church of St. Nicholas, in New York, had not seen the circular. In his Thanksgiving sermon he criticized Hoover for going south on a dreadnought. Said he: "A Quaker on a battleship looks like a cannon in a parlor...
...politicians, newspaper owners, Algonquinesque writers, Wall Street, society. It is all very bitter; but there is action, noise and color, settings by Robert Edmond Jones, staccato staging by Richard Boleslavsky. These first two acts are the outstanding curiosity of the current Manhattan season. The third act is a tedious sermon showing that happiness is just around the corner for those who renounce gold & greed. Author Pollock calls the whole thing a "verbal cartoon...