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London audiences and critics, pinned to hard pews without intermission for an hour and a half, tended to be cool or puzzled, or both. Churchmen tended to be pleased at the fresh evidence of a partnership between godliness and grease paint. Said St. Thomas's vicar, the Rev. Patrick McLaughlin: "A first-class play by a first class author is worth more than a thousand sermons-even mine. Religion ought to be a clue to living. The old methods are no good...
...morality." He had picked out nine episodes from Bunyan's book, but none of them conveyed much drama or continuity of struggle. The staging was uninspired, and the Pilgrim (sung by Tenor Arnold Matters) wandered from the City of Destruction to Mount Sion like an unruffled country vicar...
Rome believed reports that the Communists used Beran's absence from his duties as an excuse for election of a new diocesan administrator. The Reds packed the chapter with docile priests and Stehlik was elected capitular Vicar of Prague. Presiding at the election was Bishop Antonin Eltschkner, auxiliary to Beran. A year ago, Eltschkner was the first bishop to swear loyalty to the Prague regime. Although the Vatican did not forbid such oaths, the fact was that Eltschkner gave the Communists a tremendous boost...
...Cardinals ; of a cerebral thrombosis ; in Rome. A native Roman and boyhood friend of Pope Pius XII, he was secretary of the Congregation of the Holy Office (which decreed last week that priests might no longer be members of Rotary Clubs or attend meetings see RELIGION); as vicar general of Rome for the past 20 years, he did his best to keep the local priests away from theaters and sporting matches...
...natives of Needham Market, however, Vicar Thomas has learned to avoid making his jungle rhythms too up-to-date. "I must usually stay ten to 15 years behind popular trends in music," he explained last week. "It's still too early to even think of using Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'. That's a fine melody, though, and I do intend to use it someday...