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...Pulpit prizefights, aisle footraces...
...save a girl, unloved, who adores him. Salvation comes at the end in a fiercely realistic crucifixion tableau. It is all deeply sincere, beautifully staged. Claude Bragdon's sets and lighting effects startled the audience into frequent gasps of admiration. Yet to many the play seemed more of pulpit than of theatre...
Three years ago, Rev. J. Frank Norris, best known* revivalist-Genesis-trumpeter of the Texas Baptist belt, prophesied in John Roach Straton's pulpit that "within one hour" grimy, sinful Manhattan would be demolished. Manhattan survived. Two months ago, he shot D. E. Chipps, Texas lumberman, three times. Mr. Chipps did not survive (TIME, July...
Lodge. Of all the lay scientists assembled, Sir Oliver Lodge was the only one to take a pulpit on Sunday morning. He gave a sermon-lecture in Manchester College chapel, and those present recalled that when last the British Association met in Oxford, 32 years ago, Sir Oliver had startled many by a demonstration that electromagnetic waves ("radio") could be used for signaling, without communicating wires. His subject this time, of course, was spiritism. He began by showing how physicists have proved the nonexistence of a "material" world (all "matter" being ultimately composed of whirling particles of immaterial electricity...
With a loud rumbling whirling between their ears, last Sunday 63 humble faithfuls groped to the pulpit where Revivalist Norris campaigned for converts. Dr. Norris leaped to the floor from his rostrum and embraced them. (On the Sunday following his killing of Mr. Chipps he salvaged only five). Dr. Norris prefaced his sermon with an appeal for funds to aid in fighting his case. Members showered over $25,000 upon the man who slew, he said, in self defense. Dr. Norris is as unswervable as the flood of Genesis in his self defense plea, announcing that "here...