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...EATING ALLOWED" announced a sign tacked up last fortnight on the Anglican parish church in Kingston-on-Thames, near London. The Bishop of Stepney, invited to deliver the first of a series of lunch-hour talks organized by the vicar, Rev. T. B. Scruton, preached soberly to 200 people, half of them young white-collar workers, who munched apples, nuts, sandwiches, peppermints. Said a schoolteacher afterward, brushing off his crumbs: "I would not be here unless I were able to eat during the service...
Many a small church has to put up with the cacophony of an unskilled choir. From England last week came news of how Rev. V. B. Yearsley, vicar of Benenden in Kent, rigged up a phonograph with a volume control under his lectern, obtained a number of records of pieces which he instructed his unskilled choir to sing. Vicar Yearsley reported: "When my choir sings badly, I drown them by turning up the volume of a gramophone record-perhaps of Westminster Choir...
...ordinary Wikker standards, the other brother, Handel, was a freak. A onetime whaling captain turned vicar, Handel was expelled from the church when he got a farm girl in trouble. When she died in childbirth he settled down in the poorest section of his native village, became a sort of father confessor to the poor as well as a friendly enemy to the shipowner who ran the town. Until he was 60 Handel spent his days in a quiet round of preaching primitive Christianity, writing amateur science, philosophizing with his cronies, combatting the blackening meanness of his brother and sisters...
...Once even God looked something like him (The Man Who Played God). But whatever else he is supposed to represent, Actor Arliss is always his own suave self. He was never more so than in Dr. Syn. In the dual roles of an 18th century pirate and the kindly vicar of Dymchurch-under-the-wall, 69-year-old Actor Arliss takes a well-deserved vacation from high matters, enjoys a revel in unmonocled duplicity. To the simple folk of Dymchurchhe is an example in godliness; to his pirate crew, an iron leader; to His Majesty's revenuers, a headache...
...England's most famed and deepest-red radical. Grandson of the Earl of Gainsborough, he went to public schools, to Cambridge, to Chichester Theological College, and, he says, "completed my education in the doss-houses of South London." For 27 years Father Noel, an Anglo-Catholic, has been vicar of Thaxted, a small parish near Cambridge. Of his early days as priest he says: "At Thaxted I preached Socialism, and soon introduced a full Catholic Worship according to the old English rite. Some of my parishioners became very keen, especially the young and the poor. During...