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Rita Weiman
Rita Weiman (1885–1954) was a playwright, journalist, author, and screenwriter. Biography Beginnings Rita was born in Philadelphia in 1885 and raised in a Quaker community. She later recounted that she felt lucky her parents supported her ambitions to become a writer. She attended the Friends' Central School before moving to New York to pursue journalism but soon fell into playwriting. Writing career She later worked at ''The New York Herald'' with Alice Leal Pollack, who she'd soon write a well-regarded play, ''The Co-respondent'', with. The next year, it was turned into a film by Ralph Ince for Universal. A number of her stories and stage plays were turned into screenplays, including 1920's ''Curtain'', which first ran in ''The Saturday Evening Post''. She met director William C. deMille in the early 1920s, and he asked her to write a love story between an older man and a younger woman. She quickly obliged, wrote the story, sold it to a magazine, and then helped tur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quakers
Quakers are people who belong to a historically Protestant Christian set of denominations known formally as the Religious Society of Friends. Members of these movements ("theFriends") are generally united by a belief in each human's ability to experience the light within or see "that of God in every one". Some profess a priesthood of all believers inspired by the First Epistle of Peter. They include those with evangelical, holiness, liberal, and traditional Quaker understandings of Christianity. There are also Nontheist Quakers, whose spiritual practice does not rely on the existence of God. To differing extents, the Friends avoid creeds and hierarchical structures. In 2017, there were an estimated 377,557 adult Quakers, 49% of them in Africa. Some 89% of Quakers worldwide belong to ''evangelical'' and ''programmed'' branches that hold services with singing and a prepared Bible message coordinated by a pastor. Some 11% practice ''waiting worship'' or ''unprogramme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
