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Bastard son of an Irish cavalry officer and the young Scottish wife of a depraved Spanish diplomat (Claude Rains), Anthony spends his boyhood in a Leghorn convent. At 10 he is apprenticed to and given his last name by the Scottish merchant who by a happy chance, though Anthony never finds out, is his maternal grandfather. He marries the cook's daughter (Olivia de Havilland), leaves her to collect a debt in Cuba, goes to Africa to make a fortune in the slave trade, returns to Leghorn to find his Angela gone, his grandfather dead and the family housekeeper...
Last week, while Cloistered, first cinema ever taken inside a Catholic convent (TIME, June 1) was concluding a successful Manhattan showing, newspaper readers beheld the first close-up still photographs ever snapped in the U. S. to show young Catholic girls entering religious life. In the new chapel of Villa Lucia in Morristown, N. J., cameras clicked, floodlights glared when 21 Italianate young women renounced the world, took the simple vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, received the habit of the Maestre Pie Filippini (Religious Teachers of Philip) in the U. S. Motherhouse of that old Italian order...
...Fine Arts we find "Cloistered," a cinematic invasion of a convent which hails itself as offering the first "intimate scenes and unposed glimpses of life in a convent." It has a great deal of tranquillity, but not overmuch dramatic significances. At the other end of the line we find the Park Theatre, fromerly of Mineky's chain, presenting the much whispered about Czechoslovakian film "Ecstasy." The Park bills it for Adults Only, but it is nowhere near that exciting. Except for moments of genuine scenic charm it is an exceedingly pedestrian study of why girls get restless at times...
...years ago a French cinema director named Robert Alexandre went to Vatican City, had the first of some 50 interviews with high Roman Catholic churchmen. For his company, Pathé Cinema de France, Director Alexandre wished to film the first motion picture ever made inside a Catholic convent. After protracted negotiations, permission was secured from His Holiness Pope Pius XI. With a crew of 15 men, Alexandre set up cameras in the mother house of the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd at Angers. Never posing or attempting to direct its 1,000 inmates, he took...
Married. Natalie E. Carr, 22, socialite who disappeared from Vassar College in 1933, turned up in a Canadian convent five months later, then left it last autumn a week before her final-vows ; and Walter Burke Coll, engineer; in Manhattan...