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...vast $3,000,000 pseudoreligious epic, is a travesty of the solemn pageant produced in 1911 by the late Max Reinhardt. Reinhardt's drama advanced through a series of large visions of the human condition, as successively they assailed a nun who had been lured from her convent by the Prince of this World, personified in a fluting cripple. Hollywood's version translates these noble obscurities into terms that the average moviegoer will more restfully recognize-right up to the moment when he falls asleep...
...their merits, none seemed more certain to turn into a hot ticket than the new Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, The Sound of Music. A sentimental evening with the famous Trapp family of singers, the show tells the story of Maria Rainer (Mary Martin), the young postulant from an Austrian convent, whose love for a widower, Captain Georg von Trapp (Theodore Bikel), and his seven children displaces her desire to become a nun. As one theatergoer summed it up: "Nellie Forbush in The Nun's Story." The advance sale has already passed...
...begun by Archbishop Gaetano Bedini, who visited the U.S. in 1853-54 as special papal legate. Undeterred by an assassination plot hatched by anti-Catholic fanatics during his U.S. tour, Bedini asked the Holy See to furnish land and buildings, U.S. bishops to provide funds. Quartered in a converted convent on Via dell'Umilta (Humility Street), the school opened hopefully in 1859 with twelve students from seven states (three of the twelve later became archbishops). Pope Pius IX came himself for Mass, Communion and breakfast (including ice cream and punch); delighted students gave three rousing cheers for George Washington...
...idyl ends. The girl's family retrieves her, and she scrawls on a window with a diamond: "You will forget Henriette." Though heartbroken, Casanova goes on to innumerable other adventures. In Venice, he seduces a 15-year-old convent girl, then begins a violent affair with the beautiful nun who is her French teacher-fittingly enough, because she is also the mistress of the French ambassador. And so it goes. Yet he has not altogether forgotten Henriette. Years later, they will meet again. By that time she will be fat and Casanova feeble. As Havelock Ellis pointed...
...Story. A startlingly beautiful though spiritually slight study of convent life, with Audrey Hepburn as the Roman Catholic nun whose choice between love of God and love of mankind comes hard...