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...other stage people?although stage interest suffered something of a setback when W. C. Fields announced that he didn't need Moral Re-Armament but would take anything in a bottle. Gertie did a scene from Susan and God and preached a sermon at the late Rev. Christian Fichthorne Reisner's Broadway (Methodist-Episcopal) Temple. The New Yorker hailed her entry into the pulpit with the comment: "That, fellows, is our idea of divine service...
Died. The Rev. Dr. Christian Fichthorne Reisner, 68, founder and pastor of Manhattan's Broadway Temple Methodist Church; after a gallstone operation; in Manhattan. Onetime Kansas newshawk, Dr. Reisner startled sophisticated New Yorkers with his promotion schemes to "sell" religion (billboard advertising, Broadway entertainers in the pulpit, hymn-whistling services, preaching in costume) succeeded in raising $3,000,000 for his skyscraper church (still unfinished) before the 1929 crash...
...Windsor Tapestry): "To hear the King speaking [1936] about peace was almost to restore one's belief that peace really was going to be achieved. The very timbre of his voice had a tonic quality. It was like a light dry wine." Leading Friends: Pastor Christian Ficthorne Reisner of Manhattan's Broadway Tabernacle ("I get in the papers all I can, but it is not personal publicity I seek-I want my Christ played up"); Mizra Ahmad Sohrab, direct descendant of Mohammed and leader of U. S. Bahaism ("There is no saint without a past; there...
...faculty leans to the left, decided to show businessmen their mistake. Professor Paul R. Mort, director of the college's Advanced School of Education, invited business executives to a conference with the professors. Three critics of business-Professors George Sylvester Counts, F. Ernest Johnson and Edward Hartman Reisner-thereupon started the fur flying. Four businessmen hit back-Mark M. Jones, president of Akron Belting Co.; George Harrison Houston, president of Baldwin Locomotive Works; Henning Webb Prentis Jr., president of Armstrong Cork Co.; Dr. Harold Stonier, executive manager of American Bankers Association...
...security, it will not only prove a failure but the Church will jail too, and lose its entity.- Dean Wallace Brett Donham of Harvard's Graduate School of Business Administration. A study of recently printed salaries almost makes one a Communist or a Socialist.-Rev. Dr. Christian Fichthorne Reisner of Manhattan...