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...sermon are likely to be snatched up within a few hours of delivery. About one student in six is estimated to be a member of one of the denominational societies, and about 80 undergraduates are being confirmed at the university each year. Says the Rev. Roy Stuart Lee, vicar of St. Mary the Virgin: "The best minds are turning most seriously to religion...
Every bishop and vicar knew what he meant. There is much latent sentiment in secular Britain against the state-linked church (it showed recently during the Princess Margaret-Captain Townsend controversy). If Parliament turned down the churchmen's divorce clause, then the bishops and vicars would have to choose either to defy Parliament or to back down, thus inviting the disestablishmentarians to go to work. Disestablishment would mean loss of state protection, possibly some lands, and the privilege of crowning England's monarchs...
...Beans. There have been only isolated protests. A Cambridgeshire vicar, the Rev. Eric Arthur Marsh, helped start a Farmers and Smallholders Association, demanded bitterly: "Why should not the inefficient factory owner be dispossessed? The inefficient butcher, baker, candlestick maker? The answer is easy. The farmer has sacrificed his liberty and freedom for the price of a bag of beans...
Pygmalion. Carolina's benefactor was an Englishman named Robert Wilbraham Fitz Aucher. A vicar's son, Fitz Aucher was a man of great charm and erratic fortune. Three years ago he struck it rich when he sold a rust-proofing process to a Belgian steel concern for close to $1,000,000. After that he expanded gloriously, launching enterprises from Norway to Iran. He did not marry, but brooding on his loneliness, decided to adopt children. He dreamed of being a Pygmalion to some poor Italian girl and transforming her into a perfect English lady. Italian friends sent...
Lease of Life (Michael Balcon; I.F.E.) nearly puts its audience to sleep before shocking it awake with the chilling reminder that, in the midst of life, man is in death. Robert Donat is the grey, ineffectual vicar of a tiny parish in rural Yorkshire. His daily round is a dreary mixture of habit and frustrations. Carefully nurtured by his tweedy wife (Kay Walsh), pampered by his genteelly hoydenish daughter (Adrienne Corri), he has only one major problem: how to find enough money to pay for Adrienne's musical education in London...