Word: rev
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rev. Charles Edwards Park, minister of the First Church Unitarian, Boston, will conduct the chapel services this morning at 8.45 o'clock in the Faculty Room of University Hall...
...cold day just before Christmas in 1870, two actors went to Rev. William Tufnell Sabine, rector of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Atonement at Madison Avenue & 28th Street in Manhattan. One of them (though Mr. Sabine did not recognize him) was the great Joseph Jefferson, who had been playing Rip Van Winkle since 1859 in various versions. He explained that his old friend George Holland had died; this was Mr. Holland's son Edward; they wished to arrange for the funeral. Then he added that Mr. Holland had been a well-known oldtime actor. Mr. Sabine...
Rector and founder of the Church of the Transfiguration near Fifth Avenue on East 29th Street was Rev. Dr. George Hendric Houghton. Kindly, white-bearded, he was a pronounced Anglo-Catholic, a follower of the Oxford Movement. Only once, in his youth, had he attended a theatre (to his death he never saw Actor Jefferson on the stage). But he had performed funerals for actors. He agreed readily to do so for Actor Holland. The Press heard of the incident, amplified it. Out of the welter of discussion which ensued throughout the U. S., there emerged the name & fame...
Preached famed Rev. John Haynes Holmes in Manhattan on Mahatma Gandhi: "He has the dignity of a king. . . . Where do people get the idea that he is ugly? . . . His frame is large and his stature is erect and tall...
...Rev. Charles Edwards Park, minister of the First Church Unitarian, Boston, will conduct the chapel services this morning at 8.45 o'clock in the Faculty Room of University Hall...