THE DENVER CATHOLIC REGISTER Telephone, Keyitone 4205 Thuridoy, April 5, 1951 Thermo - Electro Mass Schedule Sessions Held at St
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'/ THOUGHT YOU SLEPT ON BOARDS,' SAID LAD; MOVIE SHOWS 'SECRETS' OF SEMINARY "Their bedrooms I thought htd the entire student body and faculty, ation hall, and onto the ball field priesthood.' in 12 different states from Montana there and be a priest too." In fact, on planks . .” The writer goes on play checkers . bars on the windows or they had to. there was completed at St. Thomas’ to portray each of these scenes as it The primary purpose o f the film to Texas and from the Mississippi many o f them were so unusual that, to say, "But they didn’t, they had "I didn’t know that they had sleep on planks.” This is tiie false movie in color entitled This actually happened. ^Some o f the is to foster vocations to the priest to the Pacific. in the interest o f breaking down very nice rooms.” This, if one sports and recreation . notion a nine-year-old boy hid Is the Seminary, This movie dealt scenes are o f the holy sacrifice of hood, but it is also intended to give The majority of the schools in vocational barriers, it is felt they will pardon the use o f a cliche, hits All o f these can best be answered about seminary life. The truth was with the life o f a seminarian from the Mass, the light-heartedness o f lay people a picture o f what goes this region have had showings of should be printed. the nail right on the head. Still by the following quotes: "What im revealed to him in the showing of the time o f his arrival at the semi the seminarians during the recrea on inside the fence at the priest- the film. The grade school children Such misconceptions as , I other letters expressed the follow pressed me most was that there was the movie, This Is the Seminary, nary until he completed his train tion periods, and their seriousness factory. were asked, after they had seen the had an idea that they had to sit in ing ideas which were corrected by a time for prayer, study, and writes William Coming in the cur ing and was ordained. It accurately at prayers and studies. It moves At its premier showing on movie, to write a letter describing a desk all da^ from morn 'til night the movie as they later stated. play. ” rent issue of The Ambassador, St. depicted the order o f the day from with A e seminarian through the Alumni day, Oct. 19, 1949, the their reactions to it. The themes of studying Latin,” were corrected by "I thought they prayed all "I always wanted to be a priest Thomas seminary guild, Denver. the first bell at 5:30 in the morn four years o f college work and then film was most favorably received. the letters that arrived ranged the movie. Others were even more day . since my First Holy Communion. Three school-years ago, by dint ing to the lights-out bell at 10 p.m. to the four years o f theological Since then, about 10 copies have all the way from, "Gee, I didn’t severe . "Their bedrooms I "I didn’t know that the seminar And the idea was slowly leaving of hard work on the part o f several The movie camera was taken into studies. The movie ends with the been sold throughout the Rocky know that. I thought it was like a thought might have had bars on ians ever drank pop . .” me. But when I saw the movie it students and the co-operation of the classroom, the chapel, the recre ceremonies o f ordination to the Mountain region. It has been shown jail.” . to . "I’m going to go the windows or they had to sleep "I thought they did not even made my dream come back.” Performances Archbishop Vehr Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation April 23, 24, 25 Will Officiate Contents Copyrighted by the Catholic Press Society, Inc., 1951— Permission to Reproduce, Except on Six Aged DPs Find Home in Denver: Articles Otherwise Marked, Given After 12 M. Friday Following Issue. Full Cast Named Joseph Answers Prayers of Sisters De Paul Society By Director for At Seminary on DENVER CATHOUC Charities Opera Sunday, April 8 The complete list of prin The annual Mass in the St. cipals for the opera, La Trav- Thomas seminary chapel in iata, to be produced by the Denver for the members of the St. Vincent de Paul society R EG ISTER Denver Grand Opera company in the City auditorium April will be celebrated on Sunday morning, April 8, at 8 o’clock by 23, 24, and 25, was announced this VOL. XLVI. No. 33. THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1951 DENVER, COLORADO week by the Rt. Rev. Monsigmor Archbishop Urban J. Vehr. Joseph J. Bosetti, director. The This Mass is offered every year singers and the roles they will sing on the second Sunday after for each of the performances are Easter, which is the Feast of the as follows: Translation of the Relics of St. Top-Notch Talent MONSIGNOR ELMER J. KOLKA of reorienting their lives after years of volunta^ Vincent de Paul* who is patron of exile from Hungary and life in an IRO camp in the Vincentian Fathers who teach Will Be Heard Catholic Charities and Mother Stanislaus, at the seminary, and of the de New Music Program Italy. Anna and Andrew are’ the first married couple superior of the Little Sisters of the Poor at Mullen The cast of characters for the of an expected 32 DPs to arrive at the hoiye.- Paul^ society. home for the aged, Denver, are shown here aiding first night includes Hilde Reg- (Register photo by Jerome) Members of the six new confer giani as Violetta Valery; Bruno Anna and Andrew Tamas, newly arrived DPs, in ences established in the past fiscal Landi, Alfredo Germont; Fred year will send their first repre Nesbit, Giorgio Germont; Betty sentatives to this annual Mass and Jackson, Flora Berviox; Virgil meeting. New conferences were Bellinger, Gastone; Marlene Kurtz, started at All Saints’ parish, Den Parochial Schools Annina; Robert Bodhane, Baron ver, and St. Anthony’s, Westwood, Douphol; Sam Chean, Doctor and four conferences were formed Grenvil; Arthur Madsen, Marquis in Colorado Springs at St. Mary’s, 1 A unified instrumental music program for tht parochial schools d’ Obigny; %and Bruce Lowery, Sacred Heart, and Divine Re o f Denver will be introduced in the next school year, according to Giuseppe. deemer parishes, and the Pauline the Rev. Edward Leyden, archdiocesan superintendent of schools. For the second night the cast chapel. Dwight McCready has been named director o f instrumental music in includes Emilia Vidali as Violetta Judge Joseph Walsh will pre Valery; George Van Qorden, Al side at the meeting that will fol the parochial school system, and is in charge of setting up the pro fredo Germont: Richard Dworak, low the Mass and breakfast. The gram. Giorgio Germont; Joan Druger, 33rd annual report will be read Five degree teachers will be employed in the teaching o f the and special reports will be made by the Salvage bureau and the instrumental music program, says Mr. McCready. Cathedral, Holy I Arias from “ Traviata” will burial committees. Family, St. Joseph's, St. Francis de Sales’, and Regis high schools have I be a feature of tlije “ Concert by Appeal for Salvage Bureau already signed up for the program, and Annunciation high school I Request” program OTOr station A letter this week from Arch I KOA in a broadest to be heard is expected to do so shortly. 'The work o f contacting the grade schools bishop Vehr calls for co-operation has just been started, with St. Louis’, Englewood; Blessed Sacrament, I Monday, April 9; at 9 %>»• The with the work of the De Paul I opera is one of tbo bast known society and the Salvage bureau. and Our Lady o f Lourdes schools already in the system. It is planned among all popular works of this to start the course with pupils as low as the third grade, so that they ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER I type, and rirtually ovory radio will be accomplished musicians by the time they enter high school. I listener is familiar with tbo Chancery Office I principal arias. 1536 Logan Street 'The courses will be accredited subjects, five days a week. Denver 5, Colorado It is planned to conduct a clinic and festival for the pupils and Flora Berviox; Virgil Bellinger, April 2, 1951 teachers once a year, probably at Loretto Heights college, patterned Gastone; Helen Swem, Annina; Reverend Dear Father: after the annual high school press convention there. A central office Arthur Madsen, Baron Douphol; The St. Vincent de Paul Sal and warehouse containing instruments and music are also being looked Robert Bodhane, Doctor Grenvil; vage bureau is now making its Dwight MeCready forward to. Sam Chean, Marquis d’ Obigny; annual appeal to our Catholic and Earl Daley, Giuseppe. The music department will co people to help it in its work of The cast for the third night is operate with the athletic depart charity and aid to the poor and Hilde Reggiani as Viole^a Valery; THE FIRST CONTINGENT of “ hard Tamas, 66, Hungarians; second row, Nikola Kola- ment, providing band music fop underprivileged of our city. The Profession for Carmelite Bruno Landi, Alfredo Germont; eevic, 69, Croatian; Miroslav Palcic, 64, Croatian; football games and other athletic core” DPs to arrive at the Mullen home for Salvage bureau will call for and be contests, and will also work with 4 Alvin Schwarz, Giorgio Gtermont; the aged is shown here shqrUy after their reception One candidate will bo prq- families and a few invited guests and Rudolf Pavlek, 61, Croatian.