Word: matthews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This all happened last fortnight in a real church-and what's more, a Church of England church: St. Matthew's, in the little British shoe-manufacturing town of Northampton...
...Says he: "I decided we'd have really absolutely topnotch performances of music and art -so why not approach the people at the very top of the tree? They could only refuse, and that wouldn't hurt me." When his father, Canon Hussey, who had been St. Matthew's first vicar, offered to make a jubilee presentation to the church, Hussey hurried off to see Sculptor Moore, whose smooth, tiny-headed figures are considered by some critics to be tops in modern British art. Moore was dubious about making "the Madonna still look like the Madonna...
This jolting dose of culture was such a hit with St. Matthew's plain parishioners that Parson Hussey decided to do it every year. Each St. Matthew's Day (Sept. 21) he commissions at least one new work, like Sutherland's Crucifixion. The congregation raises the funds...
...British farce, Springtime for Henry. In 15 years of off-&-on touring, Henry has brought Edward Horton almost $1,000,000. This summer, for the fifth consecutive season, Edward has taken the old boy on the summer circuit with a supporting cast of three (Lilian Bond, Elaine Ellis and Matthew Smith) and the prospect of an average $1,800-a-week net to add to Horton's earnings...
Because it seems to encourage free enterprise, the Parable of the Talents (Matthew 25) has long been a favorite text at businessmen's luncheons. In need of money for repairs, the First Presbyterian Church of Bluffton, Ohio thought up a more specific use for the parable. One way to collect the repair money, suggested Layman Eugene Benroth, might be by re-enacting the parable. One day last February, after borrowing 200 ten-dollar "talents," the Rev. E. N. Bigelow distributed them among his congregation...