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...ideals, George Cohan has promoted or permitted a measly interlude, a song of which the title and refrain are "Personality." Possession. Edgar Selwyn is not a playwright who takes his comedy too lightly. Indeed, in this play of gloomy wedlock and ill-starred infidelities, he preaches a sad sermon with his quips and makes Margaret Lawrence, who usually seems bearable if not entrancing, a monstrous brute of conjugal ferocities. When her bond-broking husband (Walter Connolly) blankets himself with another lady, the wife follows, gnashing threats of duty. All the forces of law and decency seem allied with the dreadful...
...Coolidge-"What was the sermon about...
Evangelist William Ashley Sunday last week preached a "shortstop" sermon against Governor Smith's presidential candidacy. Theme: "Crooks, cork screwers, bootleggers, whisky politicians; they shall not pass-even to the White House." Place: Ocean Grove, N. J., Methodist seashore resort...
...fortnight ago, Dr. Straton, in his evening sermon used the word vice. His point: "However clean, personally, the Democratic candidate may be, and however innocent he may have been of any deliberate intention to give aid and comfort to the forces of vice, lawlessness, and drunkenness, nevertheless, because he is the type of politician he happens to be and because his sympathies and the judgments of his heart are with the liquor crowd and the hangers-on of the liquor crowd, the forces of prostitution and gambling have, for the sake of truth, to be included with them, therefore...
...fourth row of pews. As the catafalque was laid before the altar, priests were chanting the De Profundis. Solemn Requiem Mass. Funeral sermon. "Death is not a parting, but a meeting." No eulogy. "Resurrectio sum et vita...