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...main trouble is that Director John R. Woodruff and his cast have failed to make their acting natural and spontaneous enough. Almost every role is tinged with didacticism; the actors seem obviously to be reciting lines from a play. This difficulty leads to a considerable loss of emotional content and also of humor--the play is, after all, billed as "a comedy." At times, as in the repartee between Teresa's fiance Antonio and the nuns, Woodruff's direction is simply too slow, so that the question-answer sequence proceeds too jerkily and much of its humor evaporates. The director...
Died. Dr. Kate Pelham Newcomb, 71, Wisconsin's famed North Woods woman doctor; of complications following surgery on a broken hip; in Wausau, Wis. Kansas-born Kate Newcomb had an ever-widening practice in a 70-mile circle around Woodruff, Wis. (pop. 550), where it was always hard sledding. Fame came to her after a "million pennies" drive to raise funds for a tiny community hospital and an appearance (1954) on TV's This Is Your Life; the TV audience ponied up $112,596, and roly-poly Kate became the subject of a sentimental biography, Doctor Kate: Angel...
...Utah-Arizona border are called Fundamentalists and believe that multiple marriage is the law of God. What they practice openly (TIME, Aug. 3, 1953) thousands of others throughout the West practice in secret. And this is not surprising, for it is little more than 65 years since aged Wilford Woodruff, fourth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints, publicly declared that "my advice to the Latter-Day Saints is to refrain from contracting any marriage forbidden by the law of the land." The Mormons have condemned plural marriage ever since, and do not recognize...
...Takes a Real Man." The Fundamentalists, in turn, look upon Woodruff and his successors as apostates from the Divine Revelations announced by Mormon Founder Joseph Smith in 1831 and again in 1843. One of them told TIME...
...believe as a people that polygamy is a divine institution. People live this way in heaven . . . Woodruff's manifesto of 1890 was not a revelation of God. It was a submission to expediency . . . Without plural marriage, men cannot become Gods...