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After she has studied at the School of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, her superiors send her to the Belgian Congo as a nurse, where she is assigned to work with a character called Dr. Fortunati (Peter Finch), who is described with Gothic horror as "a genius and a devil" but turns out to look like nothing worse than Alan Ladd with eyebrows. "Don't ever think for an instant," Sister Luke is warned, "that your habit will protect you." After teasing this tedious notion about for the better part of an hour, the script clumsily returns to its proper...
...Story (at the Metropolitan). This two-and-a-half hour film is an informative, comprehensive, unglamorized version of Katherine Hulme's novel about a Belgian girl's glorious failure in attempting to be a worthy nun. It should appeal to non-Catholics and non-believers as well as Catholics. The picture has a fine screenplay by Robert Anderson '39, firm direction by Fred Zinnemann, and beautiful color photography. Audrey Hepburn in the title role give a flawless performance; and more than able assistance is provided by Mildred Dunnock, Dame Edith Evans, Dame Peggy Ashcroft, Peter Finch, and others...
...makes more pleasant reading than a novel that is both light and serious-unless it is a love letter written with tact. Alexis Curvers' light and serious novel is a moving love letter to the city of Rome. It consists of the memoirs of Jimmy, an exquisitely cultivated Belgian bum who gets a job as a tourist guide in the Holy City and finds a few shadowy, crackpot friends. There is Sir Craven, so named for his Craven "A" cigarettes, a fop straight out of the Oscar Wilde era and The Yellow Book. There is a businesslike crook named...
...attraction of this strongly appealing book lies not so much in the plot as in the author's passion for the city. Rome, says Belgian Novelist Curvers, is "like a woman lying in a shallow bowl of marble who, leaning now on one elbow, now on the other, constantly lifts one hand toward the blue bowl of the sky." Since that hand holds offerings-the offerings of art-the book also contains more genuine insights into art than a shelf of criticism. Of the Sistine Chapel: "Poor Michelangelo-to have been put to so undignified and superhuman a task...
...took it as a good omen that with his return to Belgium the brouhaha about Prince Albert's marriage showed signs of dying down. At issue was the fact that if Pope John XXIII performed the marriage at the Vatican, there could be no civil ceremony first, as Belgian law requires. Reason: since the Vatican is a sovereign state, it considers its own service to have civil status as well. "In a gesture of particular solicitude toward Belgium." the Pope last week helped to pacify the situation by agreeing that young Albert and Paola should be married in Brussels...