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...since the departure of King Alfonso, Madrid has been quiet?a little too quiet to suit observers who recalled the doldrums that preceded the French and Russian revolutions. Last week shouting mobs bore down on the Jesuit Industrial School, burned it to the ground, swept on to a Carmelite Convent, newly erected with funds collected in South America, and burned that too. In short order four more schools and convents were burned. Nuns and priests fled through back doors. Martial law was declared...
...Author (who pronounces her name Reppliay) has more than the ordinary good Catholic's interest in Mere Marie, for she was educated at the Ursuline Sa cred Heart Convent at Torresdale, Pa., be fore she submitted herself to the non-sectarian influences of the Universities of Pennsylvania, Yale and Columbia. Many a spring freshet has gurgled under the bridge since she published her first book of essays in 1888, but she is still one of the mainstays of Boston's august Atlantic Monthly. With Princeton's equally down right Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Agnes Repplier shares first place...
...teaching order of nuns (established 1572). Mere Marie de l'Incarnation (1599-1670) was born in Tours, named plain Marie Guyard. At 17 she married a M. Martin and bore him a son. Not till her husband was dead and Marie was 32 did she enter the Ursuline convent. There her mysticism and executive ability marked her for a super-nunnish career. When the call came for volunteers to go to Quebec, Mere Marie heard it and went...
...grave, has little hillside Assisi been thrilled as it was last week. The stiff coattails of the bearded, bustling proprietor of the Hotel Subasio flapped with excitement, mayor and corporation excitedly talked plans for two days. Even the Franciscan brothers in the monastery, the Poor Clares in their convent, read their offices with a certain worldly detachment. For Princess Giovanna, next-to-youngest daughter of King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy, was coming to Assisi to be married to little Tsar Boris of Bulgaria...
...more effective than operatic voices for the microphone. Little Dorothy Jordan plays opposite him. Cutting would have done this picture good, as many of the sequences, retained for their sentimental import, are merely tedious, and the whole thing is too long. Good shots: what the girl from the convent says when Novarro asks her if she would like to come home with him; harmonic parallelogram of nuns singing mass; the young singer, his old teacher, and their fat landlady singing a trio in a Madrid rooming house...