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...sanctity of marriage as defined in the canons of the Episcopal Church, he kept a tight rein on ministers who might be tempted to stretch the rules a little in order to allow the divorced to remarry. He made newspaper headlines in 1921 by preventing the Rev. Percy Stickney Grant from marrying a divorcee, and again in 1926 by attacking the Roman Catholic Church for annulling the marriage of Consuelo Vanderbilt and the Duke of Marlborough. He hailed the abdication of Edward VIII as a "clear testimony of the British people in support of Christian marriage and Christian moral ideals...
Ford Theater (Fri. 9 p.m., CBS-TV). Basil Rathbone, Dorothy Stickney and Walter Hampden in On Borrowed Time...
...play as Father's chronic rampageousness; and Life With Mother gains too, on the whole, from its many evocations of Life With Father. The family jokes are really family jokes by now; Father's "Oh Gaaad!" is emblematic as well as explosive. Howard Lindsay & Dorothy Stickney scarcely seem to be giving performances (though they are giving very good ones) ; Father and Mother have become too familiar to seem impersonated...
Clarence Day Sr. outdid Jeeter Lester -or would this week, when Lindsay & Grouse's Life with Father gave its 3,183rd consecutive Broadway performance, one more than Tobacco Road's previous world record. For the occasion, co-author Howard Lindsay and wife Dorothy Stickney, the original Father & Mother, agreed to resume their roles for a one-night stand. The demand for tickets was so great that they decided to extend their stand to two weeks. Also for the occasion, the play's pressagents compiled some statistics...
...Money. With Torrio, he pushed south and west across Chicago and into the saloons, gambling joints and dance halls of suburban Burnham, Stickney and Cicero. He built his own army. By 1924 he commanded 700 men, was making $100,000 a week and lusting for more. But Dion O'Banion, a murderous Irishman with a sweet smile and a passion for flowers, stood...