Word: ashcroft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many an Anglican approved. Kenneth Ashcroft, a rural dean near London, exclaimed: "People who put a halfpenny in the collection plate . . . should be slung out of the church." His church, he added, had raised collections 20% by substituting open plates for the velvet alms bags generally used in England...
...Episcopal church usher himself, has no high opinion of some churchgoers. He calls those who do not give liberally "snitchers" and "ecclesiastical lice." As an expert on collections who knows that open plates do not encourage largess in the U. S. he predicted last week that in Sheffield Mr. Ashcroft's 20% increase would soon dwindle...
...same time keep his sweetheart Judy (Phyllis Welch), who thinks he ought to quit living in a cabin, make some money and behave like other people. Their problem is resolved in a wild night during which Van meets a 17th Century Dutch girl named Lise (Peggy Ashcroft); a crooked judge and a traprock official are suspended by the Dutch merrymen in the bucket of one of their own steamshovels; arid three youthful bank robbers play hide-&-seek with...
Packed with more downright charm and fun than any other show on Broadway, High Tor droops only occasionally when Miss Ashcroft or an incidental Indian has to declaim some of Playwright Anderson's indefatigable verse. As to acting, more important theft than the stage bank robbery is Actor Charles D. Brown's outright steal of the whole show in the part of De Witt, the oldest and saltiest Dutchman. For years cast as a theatrical cop or robber, Actor Brown comes into his own at last when, in pantaloons and a huge hat, he comes to grips with...
...Hallowell '33; bow, W. H. Holcombe '33; cox, H. H. Bissell '33. Cornell--Stroke, Wilson; 7, Ives; 6, Garber; 5, McManus; 4, Williams; 3, Parsons; 2, Roeder; bow, Schroeder; cox, Mullestein. Syracuse--Stroke, Lombardi; 7, McKean; 6, Kratina; 5, Buff; 4, Gramlich; 3, Abrams; 2, Ashcroft; bow, Donaldson; cox, Trnavsky...