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...HELL-BENT FER HEAVEN-A naturalistic study of Kentucky mountaineers in religious-complex throes. (Winner of the 1924 Pulitzer Prize...
...Hell!" In response to an edict of The Faith Tabernacle, the entire sect has refused the services of local physicians; medical science is barred from the homes of all its members. The local health authorities have quarantined both the Tabernacle itself (a $60,000 brick structure), and the homes of nine families. Legal action has been started on the count that they disobeyed the State law in not having their children vaccinated before school age. Alderman Miller: "I am sorry that I can merely hold Winterborne for court on the State charge ... I consider his action in advising the people...
...Pulitzer Prize Play may be taken as a criterion, Professor William Lyon Phelps, who acted on the original committee of selection, has given the expression new life. His statement that the choice of the committee, "The Show Off", was subsequently rejected by the Columbia Advisory Board in favor of "Hell Bent fer Heaven", while interesting and provocative of much discussion, seems in view of subsequent developments to have been hardly tactful...
Coach Farrell's double squad will travel direct to Trenton by way of the Hell Gate bridge in two special cars. They will be accompanied by Managers Bickford and Whithouse, and several old Harvard track stars who are now members of the Track Advisory Committee, among whom are W. J. Bingham and W. A. Barron, both former Harvard track captains. The whole group will spend the night in the hotel at Trenton, and journey to Princeton early tomorrow morning...
...HELL-BENT FER HEAVEN? Fairly true and somewhat unusual picture of the Kentucky mountains in the throes of a revivalist complex...