Word: conventionally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mind on murder. It has a certain novelty of atmosphere and attack: it tells of a gifted young painter (Leueen MacGrath) who has been condemned to hang for poisoning her brother, and who is forced by floods-while being taken to prison-to spend some time at a convent. A nursing sister (Margaret Webster) has a fierce conviction that the girl is innocent, and works at the case till she finds the right solution...
...convert to the rage for spiritualism in which many of the poor seek a solace they cannot find in the church. Juan, the younger son, is an underpaid factory worker and a Communist. Daughter Amelia, frightened, hypocritical and ill, wants only enough money to buy her way into a convent and escape from the terrors of life. Only Pedro, the elder son, has learned to cope with life in Spain. A pimp, a Falangist and a black-marketeer, he keeps the family alive even as they insult him for his crimes and venalities...
...honor. By removing this one characteristic of universal appeal from Cyrano, Ferrer has also taken away the element of audience self-identification, perhaps the most important aspect of the play. This is not to say that Ferrer's acting is not often superb. It is. In the balcony and convent scenes, he extracts the utmost from Rostand's brilliant lyric poetry. It is only with his interpretation of Cyrano's character that one can take exception...
...streets, shouting "Nadra!" and "Allah!", stoning and cudgeling Europeans and Eurasians, overturning automobiles, driving whites into terrified hiding. Singapore's Malay police seemed to have no heart to restrain their coreligionists. British and Gurkha troops, with bayonets and riot shields, barred the mob from a march on the Convent of the Good Shepherd, four miles outside the city, where Bertha and mama Hertogh waited for a plane to Holland. There the girl doffed her Moslem veil for European dress, tried to remember her Dutch, fondled a doll, told her mother: "It's hard having two mothers. I love...
Furniture for the Communists. A visitor to Moncay from the Chinese side is Father Herman, who was born in France but looks like a Chinese in his black silk robes and white beard cut Mandarin-fashion. A Roman Catholic missionary, he runs a school, orphanage, convent and dispensary in a little village about 2½ miles from Tonghing. The local Communist authorities recently requisitioned Father Herman's chairs, tables and beds for troops arriving from the north. When