Word: taylors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Easter pageant was to be. Usually it was a work called Lord of Life but, as the current Zion souvenir program relates, "When God's clock struck the hour for the presentation of Zion Passion Play, He had ready a young man." That young man was Elder Jabez Taylor, now 29, one of the Community's twelve ordained ministers. Having discovered he hated to preach, "Jay" Taylor had taken to directing church plays, and for Overseer Voliva he worked up a Passion Play which cost $7,000, brought in $4,000 in collections during its 17 performances. Last...
...scenes, the Ascension of Christ, whose role is played by a 24-year-old office-supplies salesman named Le Roy John Peacy. Once a wire broke and 30 angels and 250 onlookers nervously watched Mr. Peacy precariously gyrate heavenward in damaged harness. Passion Play performances have presented Director Taylor with a number of other headaches, such as the time Pilate (Secretary Ralph R. Pihl of Zion Industries, Inc.) fell asleep onstage; the occasion on which someone forgot to roll the rock from Christ's tomb in the Resurrection scene; the equally painful moment when the seven-foot cloth used...
...this pleasant oasis of German culture that the Vagabond, when Herr Hitler's rantings have made him sick at heart, sometimes retires on Wednesday morning at eleven, there to hear Associate Professor Taylor Starck give his admirable lectures on "German Civilization...
...Birdie Taylor took complete charge of the Jimplecute. In 1926 the paper was sold. The new owners immediately changed its name from Jimplecute to plain Journal. "Miss Birdie" carried on the job printing business, still runs it at 76. Last year the Journal changed from a daily to a semiweekly. Its 2,000 readers supposed that like almost everything else in their quiet, moss-grown city, the Journal would now drowse off to sleep...
...Ripley is a Bachelor" was Bachelor's first featured interview. (Ripley's reason: too busy.) Bachelor-of-the-Theatre was Alexander Kirkland, who interviewed himself. A portfolio of "Bachelors-of-the-Arts" included Photographers George Platt Lynes and Hal Phyfe, Poet-Artist Jean Cocteau, Cinemactor Robert Taylor. Julius ("Pete") Street Jr. wrote about Princeton's Triangle Club show under the pseudonym of Peter Street. An article on "The Insolence of American Women" was contributed by a Baron Giorgio Sudani, organizer and president of the Noblemen's Club of New York...