Pittsburgh Post-Gazette from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania • Page 19

f''MMM MHHIHlllll ir i in 'in iim im Adult Church School a Success in Sewickley Pittsburghesque By CHARLES F. DANVER The Lyons Den By LEONARD LYONS Trouble-Shooter's Helper THEY thought Sheriff William H. Davis, after being fire chief for so long, would never get over the impulse to jump into his buggy and chase after the engines. But he says, "I don't have time to go to fires any "VTEW YORK One of Hollywood's top movie J-i executives is known to spend big and gamble high. And he always is generous to the pretty girls in his company.

That's why he usually carries $10,000. in cash on his person more. I have too much work to do now." The sheriff was seen at a big one in the East End Knrg some weeks ago and ribbed 1 ta. Vl ahnuf if hv thp npvvsnanpr except when he takes long walks alone at Then, mindful of a hold-up, he leaves the bulk of his cash at home. He does carry some cash, lest the bandits beat him up in disappointment.

He calculated fully a sum he wouldn't mind losing and which bandits would deem rewarding, from one of his station. He carries $300. boys. But it seems he was just there by accident. When the alarm came in, he happened to be in the neighborhood with a friend, John Froclich.

Mr. Froelich is a trouble 1 1 LA Charlie Danver Leonard Lyons shooting supervisor for Duquesne Light. "It's part of his job to go to fires and look after the wires," the former chief explains. "So I went along." Night Out Sheriff Davis is so busy that he hardly has time to join the boys in their pinochle game any more. Well, not more than one night a week.

He still sits in occasionally with his old buddies at No. 6 Engine Company, in Lawrenceville, where he served as battalion chief for some 20 years. Club Note A figure well known to Pittsburgh's smart set, Peter Biscus, has resigned as manager of the Longue Vue Club and taken a new job in Columbus, O. I saw Peter only once a year, at the sumptuous buffet dinner of the auto dealers' annual outing, but will never forget his polished manner. He had a way of making a free loader feel almost like a cash customer, and that's something.

Special Skill Seasoned attenders at the auto men's feast, Carol Marcus Saroyan, who has been a thinly-disguised character in books by her ex-husband, William Saroyan, is, striking back. She's finishing; her first novel. Elmer Rice, the playwright, goes into the hospital for a long-delayed operation this week. Victor Borge says of his current successful one-man show at the Golden Theater: "It's the most unique one-man show since Christine Jor-gensen." Their friends never dreamed that the day would come when Rita Hay-worth's financial plight would be worse than Orson Welles'. Cheryl Crawford, producer of "Oh Men, Oh Women," sent the backers a dividend check covering their full investments in the show.

She wrote: "I could have sent it in installments but I wanted to save the expense of postage stamps just to prove how economical I am." The Phil Silvers' movie, "Top Banana," opens at the Victoria Theater. This used to be the Gaiety Theater, where Silvers made his last appearance as a bualesque comic. Jackie Gleason's newspaper reading these days is simple: If he doesn't see his picture on the front page, he throws the paper away. Jack Benny has conferred with Broadway producers, during his current visit here, about appearing in a legitimate play next season. In London last season Jessie Royce Landis tried writing a book for the first time.

The first agent she showed it to signed her. The first publisher to whom it was submitted bought it. It's called "You Won't Be So Pretty (But You'll Know More)." Ruth and Augustus Goetz, authors of "The Immoralist," bought a town-house and now are remodeling it. "It's a slow process unless you suddenly inherit a million dollars," said Mrs. Goetz.

Her husband then told her of the near-inheritance, of an upstate project his grandfather had bought from Carl Schurz. He remembers hearing his grandfather and uncle gloat over having re-sold it finally, for peanuts, to an unsuspecting man. "It's nothing but water, a lot of water, going fast," was their description of the great Niagara Power Canal. The Reverend Robert R. Vogelsang, assistant pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Sewickley, discusses the New Testament with a group.

Seven Denominations Join Experiment in Parish Education At Presbyterian Church School A SUCCESSFUL experiment in parish education will be concluded tomorrow night at the Presbyterian Church in Sewickley. Some 140 adults will complete five weeks of religious and secular study embracing subjects ranging from the New Testament to atomic power. This experiment originated by the way, had an amazing technique for carting it away. Two plates. One just for the lobster tails, and the other for the run-of-mine stuff like roast beef, turkey, chicken a la king and shrimp salad.

Crosstown Chatter There's a plan afoot to revive "Welcome Week," but in a much abbreviated form. It would be "Welcome Day." Charles E. Horner, real estate president, is in the Presbyterian Hospital for a checkup. Herb Briggs, utilities advertising manager, who grows fancy roses as a hobby, is spending his spare time thumbing catalogues. Charles G.

Brown, the inselbric man, who is never unmindful of his early struggles, is giving each of 10 deserving boys a membership in the Downtown YMCA. Bound to rise: Len Koster, district manager of TWA, has been put up by the nominating committee for president of the Rotary Club of Pittsburgh. Modern Version An oldtime cab driver of the writer's acquaintance says that the Downtown district is so deserted these nights you could fire off an atomic cannon in Fifth Avenue and the radiation wouldn't touch anybody. several weeks ago with the pastor, Dr. Lockhart Amerman, and his assistant, the On Broadway By DOROTHY KILGALLEN What's the Good Word? By HmS.

FRANK COLBY Broadway Grapevine NEW YORK Ava Gardner is keeping more than one. gallant on pins and needles in Rome. Besides the Italian comedian, Walter Chiari, who was recently linked with her, she's causing romantic pangs in the heroic breast THE response to this curriculum exceeded the ministers' wildest expectations. They had planned to offer a course only, if as many as eight people enrolled. Several days before the school opened, they shopped for notebooks to distribute among the pupils and agreed that 50 would be more than enough.

On the first night, however, and despite unfavorable weather more than 100 enrolled. And more students were attracted as news of the school spread over the Ohio River Valley. Soon the school had enrolled more than 140 pupils representing seven denominations in Sewickley and five neighboring communities. To the ministers' gratification, the religious courses held their own with those on gardening, reading and the atom. While the reading course proved most popular with 62 students the religious courses came close behind, trailed by nuclear energy and horticulture.

The school was conducted in the Church House on successive Wednesday evenings. It started with a brief chapel service. Then came two sessions of an hour each, with a coffee break between them. No tuition was charged and Reverend Robert R. Vogelsang.

"We felt that the Church had a wider educational mission than is generally recognized," said Dr. Amerman, "and we were also fortunate in having a large reservoir -of talent in our church." He and Mr. Vogelsang decided to use the talent. They recruited three members of the congregation to serve with them on the faculty of a Pre-Lenten School. Those chosen welcomed an opportunity to put their specialties to work.

They are: Dr. Stuart Brinkley, a consulting physicist and coauthor of the Government's handbook on atomic energy, who lectures on an ABC of Atomic Power. Mrs. Mary Louise Johnson, a consulting horticulturist, lecturer and decorator, who discusses Horticulture for the Amateur. Mrs.

Mary Cooper Robb, an instructor in English at the University of Pittsburgh, who presents The Technique of Critical Reading. Dr. Amerman offers a course on The Expansion of Christianity, and Mr. Vogelsang's subject is Approaching the New Testament. of Spanish bullfighter Luis Dominguin.

Jimmy Dor-sey is a very sick fellow at Polyclinic. Bleeding ulcers. Tommy flew to New York to break the news to their mother. Instruction in critical reading is offered by Mrs. Mary Cooper Robb, right, to Mrs.

Edward K. Klingelhofer, Mrs. W. Randall Compton, and Mrs. Frank E.Richardson, Jr.

1 I lames Rita Hayworth bh all her troubles on a promi nent Hollywood figure. believes he is trvinsr to force the Church footed the bill for coffee and classroom supplies. THE response to this experiment has demonstrated a broad desire for self-improvement among adults. The Qhurch has provided an activity which the people of its community could not have found without the long trip to and from Pittsburgh. In view of the enthusiasm with which the experiment was received, Dr.

Amerman plans to conduct another school next fall. Members of the congregation are already suggesting other subjects they would like to take, in such fields as photography and estate planning. Dr. Amerman thinks that's fine. It accords fully with the stated purposes of the school: "In the belief that Chris tianity enhances and transforms not merely a particular portion the whole of life, the Parish School has been instituted.

To use for God the talents of the gifted; to bring together in God's house a variety of people; to stimulate God-given minds; to relate our avocations to God's service; and to affirm God's relevance to all life these are its purposes." Let's Learn a New Word I7R03I a story in a current magazine: "She turned the cookie and nibbled out a little CRENELATION with fairly square corners." Crenelation is from the French creneler, "to Indent." Today it refers to an indented pattern, as of a molding, frieze, etc. Pronunciation: KREN-uh-LAY-shun. From a best seller: "He was made to feel guilty for something based on a PALPABLE lie." Palpable is from the Late Latin palpabilis, from palpare, "to feel." Its modern meaning is "easily perceptible intellectually; obvious; readily detected; as palpable imposture; palpable absurdity; palpable error; palpable lie." Pronunciation: PAL-puh-b'l. "He smiles ENIGMATICALLY and agreed lightly." Enigmatically is an adverb derived from the noun ENIGMA, "An obscure saying; a statement, figure, or the like, the meaning of which is yet to be discovered or guessed, as the riddle of the Sphinx." Enigma is from the Latin aenigma, from the Greek ainigma, "to speak darkly," from ainos, "tale, fable." An enigmatic smile, then, is one which is inexplicable, or puzzling. Pronunciation: enigma: i-NIG-muh; enigmatic: IN-ig-MAT-ik; enigmatically IN-ig-M AT-i-kuh-lee.

"There were guards posted at intervals around the PERIPHERY of the courtroom." Periphery is from the Greek periphereia, from peri, "around" plus pherein "to bear or carry." Today's meaning is "the outward bounds of an area as distinguished from the internal regions or center." Pronunciation: puh-RIFF-uh-ree. The word SATELLITE is seen frequently in the news these days as in referring to Red satellites. It refers to an obsequious attendant or follower of a powerful person or dictator; one who is servile or subordinate. Pronunciation: SAT-uh-lite. her to the wall "financially, Mlss Kilgallen physically and spiritually" by engaging private eyes to dig- up everything possible against Dick Haymes and using stooges to start litigations.

'The diplomatic set is buzzing about a reported coolness between Winston Churchill and his political "heir," Anthony Eden. Insiders claim they're coldly formal to each other most of the time, appear chummy only when the cameras are trained on them. Katharine Hepburn is causing the London scribes to drag out such adjectives as "temperamental," "thorny," "tempestuous" and "unpredictable" all because she gives them the Garbo treatment. Her only reply: "I don't want to be alone. I just want to be left alone." Phil Silvers is mulling two tempting television offers.

Most hysterical radio commercials of the year are the screechers, advertising "Riot in Cell Block 11." (Please, chaps our Mike Todd and Nancy Berg have discovered each other, but you know what romantic transients those two are. Twentieth Century-Fox's chances of collecting that $2,000,000 via the lawsuit they tossed at Marlon Brando are dim, to put It gently, which is why Marlsie didn't even swallow an extra bromide after the papers were served on him. First of all, he hasn't got two million, and secondly his advisers are smart fellows who wouldn't let him do the runaway act If they weren't pretty sure he could get by with it. But it's marvelous publicity for everyone, including the injured studio. Two girl singers are "in the bull pen" warming up in case the virus which struck Lisa Kirk doesn't go away by March 4, her opening date at the Plaza.

The much-discussed new act Lynne Cartier and the 4 Cartiers will open at La Vie En Rose in a blaze of controversy. Peary Bailey was so ecstatic over their imitation of her she asked the management to hire them but Kay Thompson is so enraged at their version of her night-club act, she's taking them to court. By JAMES J. METCALFE Then I Apologize You said the fault was mine, and I Declared that it was yours And so it seems from day to day Our stubborn-'ness endures I know that you were really wrong I know that I was right And if it had not been for you There would have been no fight But there should be an end to it And we should get together And do our best to harmonize Our feelings with the weather We always loved each other and We promised to be true And we agreed that not a doubt Could come between us two But if you will not come to me Or try to compromise I will admit I love you That I apologize. -Post-Gazette Photos Dr.

Lockhart Amerman, pastor, who, with his assistant, originated Horticulture is discussed by Mrs. Mary, Louise Johnson, left, with the experimental school, lectures on the expansion of Christianity. Robert N. Brainerd, Miss Carolyn Schmertz and Mrs. J.

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