Word: vicars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...your issue of January 12, you carried a short review by Gavin Scott of the English film, Lease of Life, in which he makes the egregious error of saying that "no Anglican vicar in all England could possibly have as lovely a daughter as Adrienne Corri," who presumably played the part of a country parson's deserving offspring...
...indeed. His distinguished manner never falters as he lets his hair down and becomes a surprisingly human being. Kay Walsh, his neurotic, ambitions, but basically good wife, is somewhat less successful. The contrast she must draw with her godly husband and noble daughter is difficult to define. No Anglican vicar in all England could possibly have as lovely a daughter as Adrienne Corri. Her back-talk to the smart aleck, home-town piano teacher who has great hopes for her future, is sparkling. She obviously will move to London for her piano lessons, he will give chase, and they will...
From the pulpit of St. Paul's the Rev. George Arthur Lewis Lloyd, vicar of Chiswick and rural dean of Hammersmith, last month called for disestablishment. Was state protection of the church, he asked, "worth the high price that is paid for it? limitation of her spiritual freedom, denial of any choice in the appointment of her leaders, and insidious secularism which results from the constant attempt to impose upon the church the state's own lower standards of morals?" Prime Ministers of Britain presumably need not even be Christians, let alone Anglicans, since there are no formal religious qualifications...
...churchmen, less sensitive about secularism, took a dim view of Vicar Lloyd's sermon. The Church of England Newspaper called it "baby talk." If the disestablishmentarians had their way, it warned, the position of evangelicals and liberals in the church would soon be "intolerable." Last week the Roman Catholic Herald surprised many a reader by siding with the low churchmen: "The tradition of Establishment has proved to be a powerful spiritual and moral factor in the country . . . Bound up with the Christian throne, the Church of England has . . . been a growing rather than a declining Christian influence . . . We find...