Evening star., 1934-10-19
FILMS TO DEPICT
CATHEDRAL STORY
Episcopal Edifice's History
and Present Work to
Make Picture.
BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT,
Stan Correspondent of The Star.

ATLANTIC CITY, october 19.-To
advertise to the world the beauty and
sacred grandeur of Washington Ca
thedral motion picture is to be
made at Mount st. Alban.
Right Rev. James E. Freeman,
Bishop of Washington, has given his
approval to the plan and work will
be started in the course Of a few
weeks.
The actual photography will be in
charge of experts employed by the
Harmon Foundation of New York,
philanthropic institution particu-
larly interested in the use of the
cinema for religious purposes.
1t is understood that a scenario
will be prepared so that the film may
follow in chronological sequence the
evolution of the cathedral from its
genesis up to the present day.
Early Bishops Work Included.
The story will include the premier
efforts of Right Rev. Henry Yates
Satterlee and Right Rev. Alfred
Harding, respectively first and second
bishops of the diocese. Into the mar
rative will be introduced such Incl
dents as the application for the
charter of the Cathedral foundation,
its granting by Congress and its sign
ing by President Benjamin Harrison.
Two of the original sponsors of the
project-CharleS c. Glover and Theo-
dore w. NoyeS-will be consulted for
details of the early history.
President McKinley's visit to the
Cathedral Close, President Theodore
RooSevelt's presence at the laying OF
the foundation stone in 1907 and
President Wilson'S attendance at wor-
ship in the Bethlehem Chapel will be
among the events recorded.
Other portions of the film will deal
with President Coolidge's address to
the general convention of 1928. Gen.
Pershing's speech in behalf of the
Cathedral building campaign and
President Franklin D. Roosevelt's visit
at Easter. 1888.
All Aspects of Work Wanted.
Every aspect of the CathedraPs
service to religion, education and
charity will be depicted. The Ma
tional Cathedral School for Girls. st.
Adams, the National Cathedral
School for Boys; the College Of
Preachers. the choir, the library. the
curator's Office and many other de-
partmentS will be shown in action as
working portions" of the foundation.
The gradual development of the
fabric from it's earliest beginning to
ffv CT af will he
traced, step by step.
Altogether. several hundred persons,
including Bishop Freeman himself,
will be in the "cast of characters"
Maj. Edwin N. Lewis, executive Sec
retary of the National Cathedral
Foundation, will be in charge of ar
rangements.
When completed the film will be
available for exhibition throughout the
United States.
Commercial Movies Censured.
Meanwhile the f1fty-first Triennial
General Convention of the Episcopal
Church, assembled here. dealt COM
mercial movies another telling blow
and prepared for a still more devas-
tating blast. The House of Bishops,
discussing a resolution received from
the House of Deputies, demanded an
even stronger condemnation of OBJ
jectionable films. "The moving pic
ture industry is destroying the good
name of America in China and other
foreign countries" declared the Right
Rev. Logan Roots, Bishop of Han
kow, and the Right Rev. William T.
Manning, Bishop of New York,
promptly followed his lead by insist
ing that unworthy pictures are having
the same effect within the boundaries
of the United States. An appeal to
President Roosevelt to request action
on the part of Congress to prevent the