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Continuing the interview, Margo describes her innocent school days in a convent. The next scene shows where she really spent them-in a reformatory, where, to relieve the tedium and pad the act, the girls put on an impromptu play, Redlight Rosie. In Act III, the reporters are asking Margo how she got her start on the stage. Margo tells them of her romantic meeting with a producer in a conservatory at a friend's coming out party. When the curtains close this time, a few keen minds in the audience suspect that the next scene will...
...Theatre, and Rev. Michael Joseph Ahern, S. J., one of New England's ablest Jesuits. The picture was Monastery, a European religious documentary film, the better part of which was made by Robert Alexandre of Pathe Cinema de France, who directed Cloistered, first picture ever made in a convent (TIME, June 1, 1936). Dedicated to Cardinal O'Connell, with his express permission, Monas tery had its U. S. premiere at the Fine Arts Theatre last week, the $10-a-seat proceeds of $5,850 going towards a Father Ahern Fellowship in Seismology at Weston College outside Boston...
After seven years in a French convent, 18-year-old Victoria arrived in England to make her own way as a governess. But Lady Derby, her aunt, had a better idea: to install her as hostess at the British Embassy at Washington, where her father was now British Ambassador. Skillful wangling won the consent of Queen Victoria, President Garfield's wife, balky U. S. Cabinet members' wives. A sensation from the start, dark, blue-eyed, naïve Victoria, with her heavy French accent and "marvellously curving mouth," did in Washington "exactly what she liked with everybody...
...Contributors to Success." Whatever may be Dictator Stalin's personal views on God and Orthodoxy-he buried his second wife in a onetime Orthodox convent (TIME, Nov. 21, 1932)-Soviet leaders who are with Lenin against God were vastly relieved last week at signs that the past three months of leniency and revelations concerning the persistence of religion in Russia do not actually mean that "The Most Democratic Constitution in the World" grants in fact what is granted in words by Article 56 of the Electoral...
...strongly Zuloaga, then Goya, then strongly Matisse, remains humorous and unruly. In the past few years his favorite subjects have been his twins, Michael and Chamberlain, and their more recent sister, Gabby. He once whiled away a short vacation in Key West by painting a pious mural for a convent where the twins had been boarding, then turning around to do a mural of captured sharks for Sloppy...