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Jonica is musical comedy at $3.50 top concerning a cute girl who journeys from a convent to attend a wedding in Manhattan. The complications, song cues and jokes are mainly occasioned by her unique naivete, in contrast with the worldly wisdom of a fat man and an actress whom she meets on the trip and re-encounters in her baffled adventures at a bachelor's apartment. The plot is furthered by a gunshot on a Pullman car, causing the fat comic to poke crude fun at a little girl who is traveling with her mother...
...Serenade. In 1897 a singing troupe called The Bostonians, headed by famed Soprano Alice Neilson, first presented this early operetta by the late Victor Herbert. The trifling story concerned the larks caused by the proximity of a monastery and a convent. In curious deference to modern religious scruples these institutions have now become a girls' school and a military barracks. The Herbert tunes ("I Love Thee, I Adore Thee," "Gaze on This Face So Noble") are still the best features of the entertainment, are nicely sung by Milton Aborn's revival company...
...they were solemnly handed over to the Benedictine nuns of the Church of St. Cecilia in Trastevere, who promised to take the best of care of them until the day of their shearing, Wednesday in Holy Week, when the weather should be warm. Carried to St. Cecilia's convent, the two pontifical lambs resumed their important business of sprouting wool...
History. Three principal Roman schools where the Montessori plan is in effect are the Via Trionfale school, the Via Fuà Fusinata school Casa del Bambini, the convent school in the Via Giusti. In none of these institutions has Dottoressa Montessori actively participated since 1914 because of bureaucratical opposition to her method. Although she dislikes travel save by automobile or airplane, she went abroad the previous year. In England she fared well, establishing institutions, receiving an honorary D.Litt. from Durham University. In the state of Victoria, Australia, mental defectives are corrected by her system. South Australia subsidizes Montessori kindergartens...
Grace George, 50, is the wife of Producer William Brady, the mother of William Brady Jr. Actress Alice Brady is her stepdaughter. Born in Manhattan, educated in a convent, she is devout, seldom misses confession or mass, often attends church before she returns home after a late party. She speaks French excellently, translates French plays for her own amusement. She usually looks as if she had just left a master modiste. She likes to swim, to be alone, to play tennis and bridge. She customarily waits a long time between engagements. Among her plays: The Girl I Left Behind...