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...through the winding streets of Assisi, pausing now and then before the office of Father Giovanni Rossi, founder of an institute for lay Catholics called Pro-Civitate-Christiana. Finally, he burst in on the priest. "Of course," he blurted out. "I must be converted." Two weeks later, Artist William Congdon was baptized as a Roman Catholic, and -as he puts it-"fell into the church as a child abandons itself to the mother...
Religious conversion touches the very being of a man, but Bill Congdon has been more deeply affected by new faith than most. Nowhere is the transformation more visible than in his painting, which is as abstract as it was before his conversion but is devoted now to religious themes. Admired by secular critics, Congdon's recent work, which last week went on display at the Betty Parsons Gallery in Manhattan, is praised even more by such Catholic intellectuals as Philosopher Jacques Maritain, Jesuit Theologian Martin D'Arcy and Author Thomas Merton. "Here," writes Merton, a Trappist monk...
Sorrows & Joys. The art of William Congdon explores both the sorrows and joys of Christian revelation. Like nearly all religious artists in history, he has been moved by the drama of the Cross. In most of Congdon's ten powerful Crucifixions, the figure of Christ is a stricken sweep of white against a mottled background of browns, greys and blacks. When he turns to the exultant scenes of the New Testament-Christ's Ascension into Heaven, the Nativity-Congdon's palette changes; the triumph of God is painted in springlike shades of blue, green, yellow and gold...
...Miss Duke so stand out that they obscure several other important assets. First, Gibson's play is astoundingly free of the oversentimentality that could so easily bog down an enterprise of this kind. Second, the rest of the cast, particularly Patricia Neal as Helen's mother and James Congdon as her half-brother, is very fine. Certain minor defects are also obscured: Torin Thatcher, as Helen's father, is rather rough and overly blustery; both the second and final curtains could use a little tightening...
Married. Mary Fickett, 30, Broadway actress (Eleanor Roosevelt in Sunrise at Campobello, a replacement for Deborah Kerr in Tea and Sympathy); and Actor James Congdon, 29; in Manhattan...