Word: deepens
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...sketch about rural life in Maine. Success came when he got a radio station in Hartford, Conn, to try out a scene in an old-time singing school, with "Seth Parker" as central figure. National Broadcasting Co. heard of it, signed up Author Lord. Dubious when he began to deepen the religious flavor of his skit, N. B. C. soon discovered it had a treasure. Until the program was temporarily taken off last month, 3,510,000 people were estimated to listen in every Sunday night on "Sunday at Seth Parker's." Mr. Lord is smooth-faced, suave, lively...
...eternally repeated symbolisms, such as flashes of a moving clock pendulum, burning candles, or lights being turned on or off to show the passage of time in a supposedly esoteric and artistic way. This method is admirable if not overdone, if not made ridiculous by an interminable attempt to deepen and mystify simple things...
...deepen the religious consciousness of U. S. Reformed Jewry, to improve their congregational singing, a committee of ten rabbis has been working for the last five years on a revised Jewish Hymnal. Rabbi Louis Wolsey of Philadelphia, chairman of the committee, announced last week the completion of "Songs and Prayers of Jewish Worship," to be submitted next month to the Central Conference of American Rabbis, representing 400 Reformed Jewish Congregations. Less "oriental," less burdened with pathos than Orthodox Jewish music,* which Rabbi Wolsey calls "a pretentious attempt to revive the Jewish religious life of Palestine," the new Reformed hymnal aims...