THE BOSTON HERALD 



TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1924 



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BIBLICAL DRAMA AT 

 TREMONT TEMPLE 



TREMONT TEMPLE — "Jeremiah," 

 Tjibtlca.1 drama In five acts, written by 

 Eleanor Wood Whitman, and presented 

 In two performances yesterday by the 

 Federation of Churches of Greater Bos- 

 ton. 



The cast Included: Selma B. Stone, 

 the Rev. Albert F. Pierce, D. D. ; Dr. 

 Alfred Johnson, the Rev. E. 0. Thomp- 

 son, John Pratt Whitman. Mary J. Gar- 

 ber, Erwln Halpcrn, Harold D. Wilson, 

 the Rev. Warren B. Brlgham, Eleanor 

 Wood Whitman, the Rev. William R. 

 Leblle, Mrs. Ralph J. Clark, the Rev. 

 William L. Wood. Don Yarrow, Newton 

 L. fritta, Wayne Latham. Rabbi Samuel 

 J. Abrams, the Rev. Benjamin T. Kiley, 

 the Rev. H. Lincoln MacKemle, the 

 Rev, Robert Watson, the Rev. John Da- 

 boll, the Rev. Willis L. Stzer, the Rev. 

 John M. Trout, the Rev. Newton C. Fet- 

 ter, the Rev. Fletcher D. Parker. 



In an explanatory note in the pro- 

 gram, written presumably by Mrs. 

 Whitman, the author of the play, the 

 popular conception of Jeremiah as 

 "Weeping Prophet" Is refuted, for "ho 

 was the one rnan of his time who stood 

 up like an 'iron pillar' against the po- 

 litical and personal deceit that was 

 bringing doom." 



So in her play of , "Jeremiah," which a 

 goodly gathering of noted churchmen 

 performed in Tremont Temple yester- 

 day, the prophet Is a boldly outlined 

 figure. Incisive, soul searching, hound- 

 ( . ed by the false prophets, and foroed to 

 ' give up thoughts of personal happiness 

 (( to become an outcast. 



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