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...Broadway sob story, highly effective because in it sentiment is used mainly as a springboard for comedy. Its heroine is a quaintly incredible old woman who sells apples on a Manhattan corner, guzzles too much gin, and corresponds with her daughter, whom she is sending to a Spanish convent, on the stationery of an expensive hotel. Apple Annie (May Robson) finds herself in a dilemma when her daughter (Jean Parker) writes to say that she has become engaged to a young Spanish grandee and that she is bringing him and his father, Count Romero (Walter Connolly), to Manhattan to meet...
Some tepid discussion followed. Then, fortnight ago, a Protestant nunnery was described in America, urbane Jesuit weekly, by "The Pilgrim"-nom de plume for any staff member. Telling of tramping through Rhode Island, "The Pilgrim" said he came upon a convent, knocked at its door in hope of getting a cup of tea. The convent Portress gave him some. He inquired the name of the sisterhood...
...last week Protestants and Catholics alike were anxious to hear more about the Harmonian Sisterhood-first interdenominational convent ever founded. Where was it in Rhode Island? How many sisters were there? What rule of life had they adopted...
...lustiness with exiled French manners and imported Negro superstition. Like other female octoroons, she was trained by her mother for the career of mistress to a rich young planter who would select her at the annual Quadroon Ball held in the Theatre d'Orleans (now a Negro convent) back of the St. Louis Cathedral. The young men fought duels for fresh or famed octoroon mistresses in the garden behind the Cathedral, handy to a priest for shriving, a doctor for first aid, a cemetery for burying. But Marie Leveau became a hairdresser instead, picked up scandal while she braided...
...Luis da Vincitata, but Don Luis was not his father. His mother died in the wintry Alpine inn where she bore him; his reckless young father saw the point of Don Luis' swordsmanship too late. The nameless orphan was deposited anonymously by Don Luis at a Livorno convent. After a peaceful childhood there he was adopted by old John Bonnyfeather. Scottish merchant in Livorno and actually his grandfather. Both suspected their relationship but neither, out of respect for his mother's memory, ever openly acknowledged it. Anthony was given a solid education and brought up as a gentleman...