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...Count. The founding father of the California wine industry was a wandering Hungarian named Agostin Haraszthy, who appeared in San Diego one day in 1849. California wine was then largely made from the sweet, heavy purple grape brought from Spain by the Franciscan monks. "The Count,'' as Haraszthy was called, did not like it. He persuaded the legislature that the state's wine needed improvement, and in 1861, he took off for Europe, returned with 200,000 cuttings of Europe's finest vines-a favor that California later returned...
...Money is a danger," said St. Francis of Assisi. The first Franciscans embraced Holy Poverty by begging for food and sleeping in stables. Their modern descendants handle filthy lucre as little as possible, but this is obviously difficult when traveling in an age of gas stations motels and Howard Johnsons. Last week at a Franciscan financial conference at St. Francis College, Loretto, Pa., U.S Franciscans heard of a happy compromise used by their Canadian brethren. Surprisingly, it is the same solution used by man non-Franciscans not sworn to poverty but headed for it. The device: credit cards...
...before he is supporting another Comrade Sweetheart. Even in a progressive state, this is one cup of water too many, and soon Mah finds himself in a corrective labor camp, being washed of bigamous thoughts. Everything turns out well, just in time for the second-act curtain. Says San Franciscan Lee, who last saw his native China in 1943, and ten years later began culling material for his satire from Communist newspapers: "In Communist China they try to get rid of the emotions, and turn people into machines, not realizing that it is possible to become something like a machine...
Townspeople and Franciscan monks were persuaded to take minor roles, and the city was authenticked up by set designers. Crews scouted the Umbrian landscape for inspirational vistas, and cameramen photographed yards of Giotto frescoes on which to superimpose the screen credits. With all the activity, it was natural that everyone forgot about St. Francis-not Actor Bradford (Compulsion) Dillman but the gentle mendicant he was supposed to portray...
Dolores Hart, an actress whose round face seems to have been cut from moist white bread, contributes to this weirdly unanimous good will as St. Clare, founder of the women's branch of the Franciscan order. She giggles. All of this is understandable, being the result of a general lack of competence. What is baffling is the film makers' failure to include what should have been the movie's boffo scene. These men bear watching; thinkers who leave out of a life of St. Francis the story of his preaching to the birds and "making the swallows...