Religion: Canned, Ready to Serve

A 40-minute color movie of a church service—with prayers, psalm and a sermon —has just been premiered at Los Angeles' Wilshire Methodist Church. Called The Templed Hills, it is the first of nine scheduled by Youth Films, Inc.

Sparkplug of Youth Films is muscular, ash-blond Rev. Borland P. Dryer, 36, a boy evangelist grown up, who spent his youth traveling with such famous spellbinders as Billy Sunday and Uldine Utley, later studied at several universities. One day Dryer faced the fact that more people were going to movie houses than to churches. "We were...

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