The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 6, 1952, Page 3

German Film Producers To Make |ocal Minister Finds City Movie Based On Life Of Luther Picture Will Be’ Made At Site Of Luther’s Home On a country road outside the village of Rambach, Germany, on August 4th, movie camera and sound recorded the first scenes of the dramatic motion picture being made by the Lutheran churches of America on “The Life of Martin Luther.” Farmers, townsmen, and tourists gathered from a wide area to watch the Lutheran film group open its production work with prayer and scripture reading and then proceed to film such episodes as Luther's jovrney to the great debate with Eek at Leipzig and the abduction of Luther by the knights of Duke Frederick. The film, tentatively titled “Martin Luther”, is being made ‘by Lutheran Church Productions, Inc., a company formed for the project by the National Lutheran Council of U.S.A. and five Lutheran Church bodies of America: The . American Lutheran Church, Augus- tana Lutheran Church, Evangelical Lutheran Church, The Latheran Church Missouri Synod, and the United Lutheran Church in Amer- ica. The decision of the board of dir- ectors was to make the film in Germany, so that, as far as pos- sible, scenes might be photograph- ed where Luther lived and worked. Where such places have been des- troyed by bombing or were located behind the Iron Curtain which splits Germany, appropriate chur- ches, castles, houses, and streets have been selected in other areas of West. Germany. Most of the episdes of the Luther story will be filmed in the mon- astaries and towns of Maulbronn and Eberbach and the cities of Rothenberg, Regensburg, and Elt- ville. Other scenes are being made in the AFIFA studios, Wiesbaden, where the Pope’s chambers, Lu- ther’s room at the Wartburg, and Tooms in Luther’s home have been reconstructed. A two-month’s shoot- ing schedule has been planned. It vis expected that the film will be released in America early next year. To produce the film in Germany, Lutheran Church Productions, with the cooperation of the Lutheran Church film group in Germany, formed a German nonprofit cor- poration, Luther Film G.M.B.H., to handle the project under the direc- tion of a board of managers con- sisting of Dr. Oswald Hoffmann, secretary of Lutheran Church Pro- ductions; Henry Endress, executive seeretary; and Dr. Paul Kollmer, a German representative from Hil- fswerk, Dr. Johannes Stuhlmacher, executive secretary of Matthias Films, was’ appointed executive secretary of Luther Film GMBH. Dr. Hoffmann is director of pub- lic relations of the — Luther- ‘an Church Missouri Synod and En- dress is secretary of stewardship of the Lutheran Laymen’s Move rch in America. Production work itself is being handled for Lutheran Church pro- ductions by Louis deRochemont Associates. Lothar Wolff, producer assigned to the project by Mr. de Rochemont, has provided ‘Luther Film GMBH with a east and crew consisting mainly of German per- sonnel, While the head camerman, Joseph Brun, for example, is an American, his entire crew of as- sistants is made up of German technicians. The electrical, art cos- tume, and construction department a whilly of German person- The film director, Irving Pichel, is the well known American who made “The Moon is Down”. Allan Sloane, script writer, is serving as diologue director. Charlotte Wana- maker, wife of the well known A- By Rev. Rogers Ley Memorial Welcomes All To Services Ley Memorial Methodist Church, Truman Avenue and Georgia Street extends a cordial invitation to all who do not have a regular Church home to attend the services there on Sunday, September 7. The program for the day begins with Sunday School at 9:45 a.m. The morning worship service will | be held at 10:50. The Pastor, the Rev. Eldon Simmons, will. deli- ver the sermon, using as his sub- ject “Chameleon Christians”. Dur- ing the same service the choir will sing Havergal’s ‘Consecrated, Lord, To The’’, with special musi- eal arrangements by Elizabeth T. Van Woert. Holy Communion will be observ- ed at the 7:30 eventng hour. This is a regular monthly feature at Ley Memorial and is scheduled for the evening hour on the First Sun- day in each montn. At the service this Sunday the choir will sing one of the hymns of Penitence — “In The Hour Of Trial’ — by James Montgomery. The Methodist Youth Fellowship meets on Sunday evening at 6:30, for worship and study. The youth fun night is on Thursday and the hour is 7:30. Other services and meetings scheduled for the week include mid- week worship at 7:30 Wednesday night, choir rehearsal and Board of Stweards meeting at 8:30 the same evening. Ley Memorial Meth- oT y it. Dr. Ropp Dies LAKELAND (#—Florida South- ern College’s oldest faculty mem- ber in point of service, Dr. Wal- ter Ropp_ 69, died Friday. A Uni- versity of West Virginia graduate, he started with FSC in 1914. He was a professor of business ad- ministration. It is believed that we are using the same water that existed on earth when the world began, al- though it has been turned from liquid to vapor or ice and back again. ing as speech coach to accommo- date the accents of the actors brought together from varous parts of Europe. After dozens of actors were in- terviewed and screen tests were made in the United States, England and Germany, the man chosen for the Luther role was the well known English actor, Niall MacGinnis, who not only looks like Luther but | ing portrays the role with great sen- sitivity and understanding. The characters, Melancthon and Carl- stadt, are played by the English actors, Guy Verney and Alastair Hunter. Spalatin is the French ac- tor Pierre Lefevre. The knights, nobles, monks, Pope, various “‘bit” players and extras are German. Cast and crew quickly developed into an international group work- ing from 14 to 16 hours a day to |Series Of Sermons On Prayer To Start Sun. |At First Presbyterian Church “TEACH US TO PRAY WILL BE SUNDAY TOPIC Sunday morning at the First Presbyterian Church, White at Washington Street, the Rev. Ralph Rogers, Pastor of the Church, will begin a series of sermons on pray- er. The church services begin at 11 o'clock and the topic of the first sermon will be, “Teach us to Pray.” As Jesus endeavored to teach his disciples in such a manner that | they could carry on the evangelis- tie program upon his death, he found ‘t a very difficult task. His was a pitiful group of followers somehow beliving that Jesus was the Messiah who would free them from the Roman yoke. Like too many folk in this generation, they thought in terms of the pre- sent with its disadvantages and hopefully trusted that the Messiah would lead the way out. All their questions led to this conclusion and it is remarkable that all but one gradually awakened to the real mission learning that it was to be spiritual instead of material and physical. One of the means of attaining that power over all opposition was through prayer. Jesus had repeat- edly insisted that prayer was es- sential for success In this field of | endeavor. By precept and example Jesus showed them the way, but even then they frankly said, ‘Lord, teach us‘ to pray.” It is quite likely that many people are discouraged and disap- pointed in their religious life, large- ly because they don’t know how to pray. Perhaps that is due to the selfish nature of man want- ing something for nothing, , Petition then seems to be the primary purpose of prayer from a human point of view. We ask and receive favors from our heavenly Father just as we do from our earthly parents. The rabbis used to teach that God must not be fatigued with too frequent prayers. Three times a day was enough. “If a man comes to address you every hour, you say that he holds you cheap: the same is true of God, whom no man ought to fati- gue by praying every hour.” Jesus seemed to have a different idea about this matter for he often and frequently prayed for hours at a time. He says that men “ought always to pray,” and that there is a certain answer to prayer if it be only persistent enough. He also gives assurance that God will main- tain his cause and that of his elect against the adversary. He also warns his deciples against failure of faith in times of seeming abandonment by God. James sums it up by insisting that “The fer- vent prayers of a righteous man availeth much.” Christian people | turn to Christ's instruction as to how we should pray and those who follow his example find victory and peace in that it is His will, Mrs. Ardelle Price will play for the opening number Sunday Morn- “Choral Prelude” by Kreckel. The Offertory is “Introspection” by Marks. Special music by the Choir is “The Heavens are De- claring” by Beethoven. | The Sunday School will begin at 9:50 Sunday morning. Mr. John Archer, Superintendent, has inter- esting classes for all age groups with competent teachers in charge. Christian Science That Goes All- Out For Southern Hospitality POLICEMAN STOPS TOUCHTON FAMILY; THEN SHOWS MANY COURTESIES By Rev. D. Paul Touchton This summer at vacation time my family and I travelled a little more than 5000 miles by car. States we touched outside of Flo- rida were Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkan- sas, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. We enjoyed the beauty of the mountains as well as the vastness of the plains. Per- haps the most exciting moment came as the third day was inter- rupted near its close by a police- man who asked us to stop. When he came up to our car it was with the reassuring words, “‘Don’t get excited I’m not going to arrest you we just want you to spend the night with us and it won't cost you a cent.” We were one of forty-seven car-loads of tourists to receive the courtesies of the lovely little city of Crossville, Tenn. For the next few hours we al- most had to pinch ourselves every now and then to see if the various courtesies shown us were really ours and all for free. Two very courteous hostesses awaited us at | the chamber of commerce. They showed us first of all the Lounge operated by the Auxilary of the | American Legion. I like to think of this friendly courtesy to tourists as a means of getting acquainted. These enterprising people of Cross- ville are spreading Goodwill by en- tertaining one carload of tourists from each state in the union out- side of Tenn. After refreshments at Bob Pal- mer’s Drug Store our hostesses took us to see a number of points of interest in and around the city. The thing which most interested us was the lovely churches and schools. They also showed us the mining-interests where the beauti- ful building stone known as “‘Crab- Orchard Stone” is mined. This rock is shipped to many parts of the world where it is used not only for its good qualities as building : material but for the beautiful fin- ish that it leaves. We found also ; that Crossville is the home of an advertising concern that reaches into alt parts of the world with its advertisements of aeroplane parts. It is the result of a boy’s dream, The developer of the con- cern spent many hours as a child studying magazines that carried ads of aeroplane parts. He thought once a month was too long to wait for those ads. so he developed his own business that carries such announcements to all parts of the world three times a month. This concern known as Trade-a-Plane has so grown that it has changed the classification of the local post office to a first class office. There is now a sister company to adver- tise earth moving equipment. The courtesies of Crossville to its tourist guests include the finest food, entertainment, and rest, as well as gasoline to help them a- long their way. They told us that some days before we enjoyed their courtesies they entertained a bride and groom. As best we could estimate the following from I Corinthians (3:18): “But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory even as by the Spirit of the Lord.” Correlative selections from “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures” by Mary Ba- ker Eddy included: “The human capacities are enlarged and per- fected in proportion as humanity gains the true conception of man and God.” (258). *- Communion At Old Stone Chureh Sunday the Old Stone Church will con- sist of the Holy Communion with @ meditation on the Pre- diction of Jesus that one of the twelve would betray him. We need to come to this holy exer- cise of remembé.ing the suffer- ings of Jesus with a total com- mitment of life to God for the achievement of his purposes in the earth. Judas was concerned to achieve his own ends or the Purpose of his evil heart with- out regard for what the cost might be to the Master. At the evening worship hour the pastor will speak on the sub- ject: I 4m Responsible. “No force like responsibility helps the aver- age person to develop.” For all the ,ood that hes been ours in | the years we have lived we | are made debtors to God and to those about us who were made to live in His image. Too few people are willing to assume the responsibility for a worth, work. At the morning worship service the choir will sing G. A. Macfar- farin’s arrangement of “The Lord is My Shepherd.” In the evening, the anthem will be The Holy City by Stephen Adams. cost of the things that were done for us would have cost us at least $20-$25. The friendliness shown us by our hostesses and the citizens i we had the privilege of meeting was far beyond the price in money. They said to us by their kindnesses that they were glad to have us pass through their city. We shall always carry in our hearts a warm tender spot for this very lovely little city that sits a-top the Cum- berland Plateau. They call it “The Top Town for Miles Around.” And of all the cities we Passed through none was quite so high in courtesy to us as was Crossville, Tenn. As | this pastor and his family think of | vacations, motels, and meals Cross- ville will be on the top of the list. Church Of God 1008 OLIVIA STREET E. M. BEARD PASTOR SUNDAY SCHOOL, 10 A.M. Morning Worship 11 A.M. Evangelistic Service, 7:30 P.M. Prayer Meeting, Tues., 7:30 p.m. Young People’s Endeavor, ‘Thursday, 7:30 p.m, +- Everyone Welcome -:- The Sunday morning service at ful. People’s Forum Citizen welcomes expres- tf the views of tts cead- it the editor reserves fight to delete any Item whicb are considered libelous or anwar- ranted. The writers should fair and cor‘ine the letters to 200 werds, and write on vue side of the paper only. Signature of the writer must t, oocompany the published an- letters and will be less requested otherwise. “Appreciates Coverage” Editor, the Citizen: coverage the “Key West Citizen” : has given the any activities of the } Post during the past Legion Year. The success of the year’s pro- gram was aided to a great extent by tlie covrage. We are very grate- Respectfully yours Vance C. Stirrup Post Commander “Wants Address” Editor, The Citizen: tag it the latter part of April I took some color pictures on a Sunday of the arrival of the fish- ing boat Mae West. You on the following Monday also had a picture in your paper of the same large catch. This man and his wife, I think were from Cleveland. The reason for my writing is, I wish to get their name and ad- dress so that I will be able to for- ward them a copy of the picture I took. I like the setting and I feel sure they also would like a copy. IT might mention I called at your | office and subscribed to your in- teresting paper care of Ward’s Court while there. Shall do so again in the future whenever I get to your beloved city. Yours truly, John P. Fricsen 64 Wall Street New York 5, N. Y. The ancient Egyptians often mum- mified animals, birds and fish. St. Paul's Church Confirmation Classes Monday — 3:30 P.M. (Children) and 7:30 P.M, (Adults) Wednesday — 7:30 P. M, Beginners’ Class [AE GLAD TIDINGS TABERNACLE “ASSEMBLIES OF GOD” Cor. Georgia and Pétronia Sts. W.K.W.F. “VOICE OF GLAD TIDINGS” 9:00 a.m. Sunday School ........ 9:45 a.m. Morning Worship ...... 11:00 a.m. Christ's Ambassadors 6:30 p.m. Evangelistic Service 7:30 p.m. se’ “You Will Find the Fellowship You’re Looking For” PHOVE 1890-R Fleming St. Methodist Church 4. E. STATHAM, Pastor Corner FLEMING and WILLIAM Streets CHURCH SCHOOL, 9:45 A.M, CLAUDE B. SALIS, Sunday School Superintendent 0020000020098) Saturday, September 6, 1952 be | Our Post appreciates the fine | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ee FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH White and Washington Streets RALPH ROGERS, Pastor SUNDAY SCHOOL, 9:50 A.M. 4OHN ARCHER—SUPERINTENDENT Morning Worship, 11:00 o’Clock Subject “TEACH US TO PRAY” Director of Music—Mrs. Walter Price Nursery Open During Morning Service PIONEERS—4:30 P. M, Youth Fellowship, 7:00 P.M. First Congregational Church 527 WILLIAM STREET PASTOR, REV. CHAS. H. MEEKER Chorister: Mr. Gerald Saunders Organists: Mrs, W. R. Dean and Mrs. Paul Archer Sunday School Superintendent Mr. Josaph Boza 9:45 A. M. Church School With Classes for All Ages 11:00 A.M.—Morning Worship Subject: “I BELIEVE THE BIBLE” Speaker: REV. JOHN E. PICKENS 7:45 P.M.—Evening Worship Subject: “IN QUEST OF LIFE‘S MEANING” Speaker: REV. JOHN E, PICKENS Visitors to Key West, Service Men and Their Families Will Find A Cordial Welcome At All Services The First Methodist Church Preaching Jesus Christ For Over A Century THE OLD STONE CHURCH Whore Eaton Crosses Simonton, for Over 100 Years ~ J. PAUL TOUCHTON B.A. B.D. Minister 9:45 A.M.—SUNDAY SCHOOL Allen Carey, Superintendent 10:50 A.M.—MORNING WORSHIP © Subject: COMMUNION MEDITATIONS “JESUS PREDICTION OF THE BETRAYAL” 6:30 P.M. — MYF, MIF WORSHIP SERVICES 7:30 P.M.—EVENING WORSHIP Subject: “1 AM RESPONSIBLE” This historic old church has a cordial welcome for servicemen and visitors. bes * GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH FLAGLER AVENUE and TENTH STREET On “Poinciana—Navy, City Hospital” Bus Ling Sunday School and Adult Bible Class Morning Worship With Holy Communion 11:00 A.M. “Let us go into the House of the Lord.” Psalm 122, 1 CARL A. SAMMETINGER, Pastor Res.: 2322 Harris Avenve Phones: Church: 1712; Pastors Home: 1619 Listen to the Lutheran Hour, Sunday, 7:30 P.M., wWKWwF 9:45 A.M. St. Paul's Episcopal Church - Corner of DUVAL and EATON STREETS THE REV. JOHN S. ARMFIELD Rector 7:30 A.M.—Holy Eucharist 9:30 A.M—Church School merican stage actor director, pro-: provide a first rate film on the ducer, Sam Wanamaker, is serv- life and work of Martin Luther. 10:15 A.M.—Rector’s Adult Class 11:00 A.M.—Choral Eucharist and Sermon (Nursery Conducted During Service) “ 6:30 P.M.—Young People’s Service League Ne Evening Serves During the Summer Theme Is “Man” Man’s joyous dominion over the unlovely beliefs of mortality increases as the understanding of his spiritual identity grows. This is emphasized in the Les- son-Sermon to be read in all Churches of Christ, Scientist. To- morrow’s Subject is “MAN.” The Golden Text is from John (3:1): “Behold, what man-| ner of love the Father hath be- stowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God.” | Bible passages include the CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY 327 SLIZABETH STREET Sunday School, 9:30 AM. Sundey Morning Service at 11:00 o’Clock Wednesday Evening Meetings at 8 o'Clock ae er Sri sas evenings Grom es Morning Worship at 10:50 A. M. Subject: “THE BREAD OF LIFE” Evening Worship at 7:30 P. M. Subject: “BEHOLD MY HANDS” Service Men and Visitors Welcome STRENGTHENING THE SPAN OF LIFE Youth For Christ TONIGHT 7:3 P.M. 72? FLEMING ST. The First Baptist Church Eaton and Bahama Streets HAROLD H. LINK, PASTOR Ley Memorial Methodist Church “The Church with a Welcome” CORNER of TRUMAN AVENUE ond GEORGIA STREET ELDON SIMMONS, Pastor PHONES: Parsonage 883 — Church 003 CHURCH ot CHRIST Ashby and Von Phister Streets SUNDAY Welcome To All Sermons: A.M. 10:50, and P.M., 7:30 CHURCH SCHOOL, 9:45 AM. Miss Miriam Carey Supt. 10:50 A.M., Morning Worship Subject: “CHAMELEON yn Rech oat (Nursery Provided During Morning Service) 6:30 P.M., Methodist Youth Fellowship 7:3 P.M. — EVENING WORSHIP Subject: “THE SERVICE OF HOLY COMMUNION Wednesday, 7:30 P.M, Mid-Week Prayer Service Bible Study 10:08 ALM, Morning Service —... 11:08 A.M WOAM (ABC) 1:00 PLM. Evening Servies —. $:00 P.M.]) WEDNESDAY Bible Study 8:00 PA. Everyone Invited