Word: nun
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Things are going badly for Linda's scolding mother at Shawn's farm. None of the children has done well at school or in marriage. Linda dreams of being a nun. But David comes home again with Rose and happier times follow. One midsummer evening in her 15th year Linda walks out in the apple-orchard, lies on the ground, feels a strange change in her mind, her blood. Shawn's farm is no longer the heart of her world. The orange moon, ris ing over the apple trees, is to set her life's tides from...
...Nun...
...love of woman versus the love of art. Having chosen the latter and abandoned Irene, the sculptor discovers that, in killing his love, he has also killed his art. None the less these disastrous lovers are in the end reunited, and in death they are not divided. The mute nun murmers her "pax" over their falling bodies, and one seems to hear a voice out of the cloud in the great closing line from one of the earlier plays: "He is a God of Love...
This production of "Electra" will have its premiere in Boston. The cast includes: Vivienne Giesen who replaced Rosamund Pinchot as the Nun In Max Reinhardt's "Miracle"; Dorothy Scott, formerly of Margaret Anglin's company in her production of "Electra"; Robert Henderson, whose successes in New York were followed by a year at the Copley Theater in Boston; and George Coulouris whose work with the Theater Guild has received exceptional praise. Louis Horst, noted pianist and the foremost dance accompanist in America has composed the music for the production, and will accompany Miss Graham in her dance...
Rosa Helen Ricchebuono, French-Canadian sister of a nun and two Catholic priests, lived obscurely with her hard-working husband Bernard in a cheap flat on Manhattan's dark, noisy Third Avenue, near 43rd Street. When Bernard would go out evenings to solicit insurance, big, broad-faced Rosa would wave a loving farewell to him from the window. One stifling summer night last year Bernard had gone out and Rosa, after a bath, was puttering about her kitchen in a loose gown. Through the open door strode a great, bullish...