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Ortiz is married to a white woman whom he took from a convent. Last week Cubans doubted the story that his two grown daughters, pistols strapped to their sides, were his aides-de-camp in the field...
...makes it stand still, it has no mood at all. A performance by Helen Hayes makes almost any picture worth seeing but The White Sister has surprisingly little else to recommend it. Good shot: Angela's duenna (Louise Closser Hale) giving her a brooch when she enters the convent...
...appointed prefect of the Holy Congregation of Propaganda, a high position of which the incumbent is called the "Red Pope" because of his world-wide influence in missionary affairs. One of the first things Cardinal-elect Fumasoni-Biondi did in Rome last week was sing mass at Sacred Heart convent where his sister dwells as Mother Gertrude...
...Memphis convent of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, one hot summer afternoon in 1913, Sister Mary Magdalen (born Mary Hodges) lay waiting for death. Doctors had diagnosed cancer. But Sister Mary Magdalen had begun with other sisters a novena (nine days of prayer) to the Venerable Mary Euphrasia Pelletier who, French-born in 1796, had expanded their Order of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd establishing 110 houses throughout the world to save fallen women. Sister Mary Magdalen had prayed that she might live to see Mother Mary beatified. Now, suddenly, she felt a flow of strength...
...with a shotgun, wears remnants of the dresses she wore in Washington when Haw Tabor seemed to be the richest man in the world. She still believes that her daughter, Silver Dollar Tabor-who died, under an assumed name, in a Chicago brothel in 1925-is alive in a convent...