In 1967 she played the man-hungry actress Lorraine Sheldon in Sherry! a musical version of The Man Who
In 1967 she played the man-hungry actress Lorraine Sheldon in Sherry!, a musical version of The Man Who Came to Dinner. Her songs included the show-stopping title number but, despite a personal triumph, the show lasted only a few performances.Shortly after her mother’s death, Gray married Andrew Crevolin, a real-estate developer and racehorse owner whose horse Determine won the Kentucky Derby in 1954. For nearly a decade, Gray concentrated on raising thoroughbred horses until she was asked to take over from Angela Lansbury in the London production of Gypsy (1973). At Gray’s first night, the show was truly stopped when the interval was extended to an hour while a throat surgeon attended to the star. Gray was allowed to continue, and received a standing ovation after her rendition of the climactic number “Rose’s Turn”.In 1986 she played for a season in the long-running 42nd Street on Broadway, and the following year she accepted Stephen Sondheim’s request to appear in the London production of Follies, bringing all her finesse and vocal prowess to a spellbinding version of the hymn to survival “I’m Still Here”.Tom Vallance. Daniel Thomas Jenkins, minister of the church and theologian: born Dowlais, Glamorgan 9 June 1914; ordained a minister of the Congregational Church 1940; Minister, Vineyard Congregational Church 1940-42; staff, Student Christian Movement 1942-45; Assistant Editor, Christian Newsletter 1945-48; Commonwealth Fund Fellow, New York 1948-49; Minister, Oxted Congregational Church 1950-56; Minister, King’s Weigh House Congregational Church 1956-62; Chaplain, and Reader in Religious Studies, Sussex University 1963-73; Minister, Regent Square United Reformed Church 1972-81; Weyerhaueser Professor, Princeton Theological Seminary 1981-84; married 1942 Nell Cree (died 1992; two sons, three daughters); died London 22 June 2002. Daniel Jenkins was an outstanding British theologian in the Reformed tradition.
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Daniel Thomas Jenkins, minister of the church and theologian: born Dowlais, Glamorgan 9 June 1914; ordained a minister of the Congregational Church 1940; Minister, Vineyard Congregational Church 1940-42; staff, Student Christian Movement 1942-45; Assistant Editor, Christian Newsletter 1945-48; Commonwealth Fund Fellow, New York 1948-49; Minister, Oxted Congregational Church 1950-56; Minister, King’s Weigh House Congregational Church 1956-62; Chaplain, and Reader in Religious Studies, Sussex University 1963-73; Minister, Regent Square United Reformed Church 1972-81; Weyerhaueser Professor, Princeton Theological Seminary 1981-84; married 1942 Nell Cree (died 1992; two sons, three daughters); died London 22 June 2002. After attending Merthyr Grammar School on a scholarship, he entered the Yorkshire United Independent College, Bradford, in preparation for the Congregational ministry. The first part of his course took him to Edinburgh University, where Karl Barth’s theology was making an impact in advance of its influence in England On return to Bradford, he was taught by H.F Lovell Cocks, who was both a former pupil of P.T Forsyth and an admirer of Barth. In 1937 Jenkins moved to Mansfield College, Oxford, for further study under Nathaniel Micklem and others.In Oxford his ecumenical experience through the Student Christian Movement (SCM), then in its heyday, was particularly significant. It was through the SCM that he met an Anglican student, Nell Cree, with whom he ran a study group on religion and art. They were married in 1942; their happy and rewarding partnership made their home the centre of generous hospitality.Jenkins was ordained to the Congregational ministry in 1940.
After a brief pastorate in Richmond, Surrey, he joined the staff of the SCM in Birmingham. As joint editor of The Presbyter, and member of the Church Order Group, he was soon recognised as an articulate and able exponent of the Genevan school of Congregational churchmanship. He wrote a series of books expounding the Congregational position against the background of contemporary ecumenical discussion and encounter, including The Nature of Catholicity (1942), The Gift of Ministry (1947) and Congregationalism (1954).He now came within the orbit of the great ecumenical figure J.H. Oldham, among whose many initiatives was the Christian Frontier Council. Jenkins was asked to become its secretary, and began a fruitful partnership with colleagues such as Kathleen Bliss and Donald Mackinnon, resulting in a number of books exploring the contribution which Christian insights could make to current social and political problems, such as The Doctor’s Profession (1949), Equality and Excellence (1961) and The Educated Society (1966). Jenkins was the co-ordinator of the groups of lay Christians whose discussions formed the basis of these books. His connection with the council continued for the rest of its life.In 1948-49 he spent a year in New York with a Commonwealth Fund Fellowship, where he studied with Reinhold Niebuhr and Paul Tillich.