Evening star., 1937-06-04
Folk
and What
They Do
Vicar WhoUnitedDuk
and Mrs. Warfield For.
mer Slum Worker.
BY LEMUEL +. PARTON.

n YAPOLEN and Josephine were
N married by civil ceremony
" In 1886. The lack Of church
off1ces fretted Josephine. She
naRged Napoleon until he consented
to religious ceremony. 1t was per-
formed May 10, 1904.
In 1909 Napoleon let it be known
that he intended to divorce Jose phine.
She was As years OLD, her beauty had
FADED, she was all but friendless, for
lorn and desperate. She appealed 10
the church. High dignitaries sus-
tained her. Then one of Napoleon.
lawyers recalled that the parish priest
had not been present at the religion,
rites. On that techncality Napoleon
got MS divorce from the diocesan au-
tnorlties. Thirteen cardinals dis
sented. They were exiled TO remots
parishes and stripped OF their prop
erty. They became the black cardi-
mails" Ecclesiastical law never did
get 1t straight, The great hierophants
OF state religion have battled over It
Tor century and more.
Not the parish priest, but, at snv
rate' parish priest steps out from
oehlnd the Hawthorne hedges of Dur
nam to marry Mrs. Wallis WarfeId
and the Duke of Windsor. This writer
telephoned several church authorities
10 inquire about Rev. r. Anderson
Jarolnes range and status under tho
anglican dominion and 10 get some
KIND of historical backdrop for this
event. Replies ranged away back into
meoleVal theology. All one ran
MAKE OF IL is that the action of the
lmpulsiye little Vicar of Darlington IT,
as the diplomats would say, "fait
accompli' and his superiors will TAX,
no action. The unresolved prohIer,
OF Anglican legality go into the hopper
OF history, along with Josephine and
Napoieon and their marriages. with
and without benefit of clergy.
Rev. Mr.. Jardine and Windsor seen,
10 nave much in common. The
wear got himself in trouble with his
pastors, masters and others in au-
thority' by agitating for the Welsh
miners, as did the duke, deploriny
their misery and promising them Aid,
ms mild stretch of the kinglv pre-
rogatlVe, published with the stories
OF the royal romance, might well have
oeen an 1ncltement to the vicar. As
oeep IN anonymity as any man in
the world until yesterday.
He is a shabby little man with a
hleh-church, authoritarian nose and
loV-church, brachycephalic head
WIN thinnlng hair. He was an IN
oeHeVer as a young man, converted
AT a Eayside chapel by vision ot
CHRIST. He Is low-churchman. evan.
seical, worker in slums and among
the outcast for many years. He ha,
| oeen described as romantic Chris
tisn. AS such history certainly hands
MIN an elegant entrance cue. He will
have much to tell his parishioners
at Darlington. His salary there is
$4,000 year. 1t would perhaps be
wrong TO say he came out from be-
hind q hawthorne hedge. He jumped
right over it, into the midstream of
history And what did Edward have
In his vest pocket for the parson?
In 1918 Harry and Jack Cohn.
emeging from Hollywoods poverty
row. put on 'Trafic in Souls" for
$4,000. snd it crossed s450,0OO They
! schemed a way to make money in
moving pictures. The idea was to
spend less than they took in. II
worked. The depression never touched
! them. Today the Federal Govern
ment wearing its heart on its sleeve.
/ lets it be known that Harry Coins
/ salary last year, as president of the
Columbia Pictures Corp, was s182.o4n.
Jack Cohn, as vice president. drew
! sl04,260.
(Copyright. 1877