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Born Cyril Trimnell-Ritchard 58 years ago ("Just say I was born and progressed in the 17th century"), he was educated by convent nuns, packed off to Sydney University to study medicine. After one year he hooked up in musical shows "as a pimply novice" with his boyhood idol, Actress Elliott. In 1935 Madge and Cyril, dubbed by Noel Coward "the singing Lunts," were married "with 3,000 people in the cathedral and 20,000 in the streets." Later in the U.S., Ritchard wasted his directorial skills on a dismal flop called Buy Me Blue Ribbons ("The reviews were simply...
London's oldest parish church is All Hallows By the Tower, founded as a convent by Erkenwald, Bishop of London, about 675. Richard the Lionhearted built a chapel in its churchyard; Edward the Confessor gave it a statue of the Virgin. The Great Seal of England was once guarded from William the Conqueror on All Hallows' altar; erring Knights Templar were tried there for heresy in the 14th century, and the headless body of many a wrong-guessing notable was brought there from the nearby Tower of London for burial. In the Great Fire of 1666, Samuel Pepys...
Unfortunately, she is not referring to the plot, which continues. Actress Parker goes to a convent, where she acquires Wisdom: "One cannot find peace in the world or in a convent, but only in oneself." Rather than swallow such bromides, the husband dies of cholera, and, as the widow sails away into the sunset, she remarks: "I'm beginning to like myself." It is hard...
...after becoming a Presbyterian (TIME, March 18), was closed by a court order that she be returned to her Catholic parents-but on the condition that they do nothing to shake her new Protestant faith. After her conversion last fall, her parents had threatened to put Maura in a convent, whereupon she was smuggled out of Belfast and into England. There a kind of Protestant underground railroad shifted her from hideout to hideout until, two weeks ago. she turned up at the Belfast home of a Presbyterian pastor. He turned her over to the police, who took...
...Fall & the Cradle. Other relatives rescued her and sent her to a Sacred Heart convent at Seattle, where the sisters prayed for her Protestant grandfather. Thereafter her story tells the usual girl's things-mysterious grownups, dresses, brothers, journeys, the near fall from virginity. The episodes, trivial in themselves, are good reading because they are by Mary McCarthy; they are also thought-provoking because they suggest something about reminiscing intellectuals in general. Those who fall out of a cradle do not merely scream; they see and live to tell. The Fear of the Fall-in the theological as well...