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...Geary Boulevard were excited this week about the breakup of the Fosters, who have been married for 25 years. But it was not the usual kind of family breakup. Don Foster was setting out to be a monk and, if all goes well, his wife May will become a nun...
Year after year, the Fosters had talked it over and prayed about it. Their only child, Marjorie Jean, became a nun when she was 17. Last November stocky Donald Foster, 50, decided that the time had come. After asking his pastor's advice, he wrote to the Rt. Rev. Alcuin Deutsch, of St. John's Abbey at Collegeville, Minn., and got an airmail reply. With a doctor's certificate of good health, he would be accepted for a year of study at the monastery before entering the novitiate...
...version of Don Juan Tenorio, Spain's traditional All Souls' Day show. "I am too much of a Spaniard and a necrophile," he said cheerfully, "to miss this chance-food and tombs on stage together." Startled first-nighters saw the heroine clad as half nun and half Easter lily, her duenna completely faceless, another nun headless and one tavern character with two heads. Among huge fish, crawling monsters and enormous yellow butterflies, danced a coquettish, bell-shaped madonna. Exulted Dali: "I have never done anything so absolutely my own as this...
...with the severe regimen of a Sadler's Wells ballerina-an endless round of class, rehearsals and performances-the champagne & lobster life comes only once in a blue moon. Margot would be among the first to agree with Frederick Ashton that "being a ballerina is like being a nun; it is a dedication...
Fantasy is the idea of Anthony Boucher, 38, a top mystery writer (creator of Sister Ursula, the nun-detective) and J. Francis McComas, 39, onetime radio announcer and wonder-story writer. They will co-edit the new magazine. It took two years to fit Fantasy into Spivak's small operation, which requires a staff of only six to put out the unprofitable Mercury, the profitable Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and 30 cut-down mystery reprints a year...