Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Toronto socialite who worked in the shops and harvest fields of the family company before becoming an official in the Toronto factory. He is reputedly worth $1,000,000. A practical Christian, he is now a mild Socialist. Like Erdman ("Erd") Harris (also Toronto-born), Denton Massey appeals to youth, in a direct, personal manner. The enrolled class now numbers some 2.400, has outgrown four meeting places. Broadcast every Sunday, it is undenominational, open to all men. Radio mail streams in, addressed to "The Reverend-The Doctor-Very Reverend - Leader - The Honorable - Teacher- Lecturer." Though some people find leader Massey...
...commercial purposes last week RCA Photophone Inc. dangled enticing names before U. S. congregations, releasing a nonsectarian. 25-min. evening church service. To a Manhattan studio preview went local churchmen, there to see & hear: Dr. Daniel Alfred ("Dan") Poling, famed Dry crusader, kinetic leader of U. S. youth, editor-in-chief of The Christian Herald; Dr. Charles Rosenbury Erdman of Princeton's First Presbyterian Church and Princeton Theological Seminary; Baritone Homer Alvan Rodeheaver, whose imposing manner and cheery hymns used to be a prime feature of Billy Sunday's revival services; and the Westminster Choir of Ithaca...
Churchmen who visited last week's preview were somewhat captious. They listened to five selections by Westminster Choir, a solo by a Miss Lorene Hodap, a scripture reading by Dr. Erdman, a sermon by Dr. Poling defending present-day Youth. Studio atmosphere was reverent: some smoked before, but none during the showing. Afterwards, a few clergymen criticized the choir: it sang too well, over-balancing the rest of the program, and there were too many close-ups of comely Westminster choir girls. Lipstick was apparent. One gentleman observed a glaring omission: there was no prayer! Hastily Promoter Rodeheaver...
Engaged. Peter ("Pan") Llewellyn Davies, British publisher, nephew of Actor Sir Gerald Du Maurier; and Hon. Margaret Hore-Ruthven, onetime mannequin and dancer with her beauteous twin sister, Hon. Alison Mary. Publisher Davies, orphaned in youth with his four brothers, became a ward of Sir James Matthew Barrie, was the inspiration of Peter...
...college undergraduates show in the political and social movements of America. Look at the Spanish students, they say, who were the spark of every really important revolution in good Alfonso's glorious reign. Spanish politicians were careful to have these firebrands on the right side. Look at the English youth, they say, who eat, sleep and talk politics, and who could save the nation with a plan of their own before breakfast and still have time to settle the Indian question before lunch...