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...R.A.F. pilot was shot down in Occupied France, taken in by a friendly abbess and dressed as a nun. After eight weeks playing the part of a model sister, he suddenly swept a beautiful young nun into his arms. " 'Old yer 'orses, carn't yer?" barked the nun. "I been 'ere since Dunkerque...
...current issue of the Jesuit magazine The Queen's Work, Father Daniel Lord, noted Catholic editor, calls his readers' attention to a new Mass composed by a young nun of San Antonio. Despite the fact that it is based on the folk tunes of the American Negro, Father Lord thinks that it should satisfy the high standards of canonical law as well as musical criticism. Its themes are expertly treated...
...took our Calvert books ... a Catholic nun taught the children. . . . Jim is now in 8th grade-doing beautifully. . . . Carl is in 7th and his teacher comments often on his excellent foundation. Anne is in 4th. . . . All books had to be censored . . . [one] told of little Japanese children pointing at Americans and saying 'Look at their big noses. . . .' The Japanese were incensed, [said] Japan was not such a backward nation. . . . [When we sailed] we left everything there for the children in camp...
...directed by Hit-Guarantor Mervyn LeRoy (Random Harvest, Madame Curie). ¶ The Miracle (Warner), based on Max Reinhardt's hyperpituitary Gothic superspectacle, is budget-estimated by Producer Wolfgang (son of Max) Reinhardt at $3,000,000. Biggest casting problem: an actress adequate for the double role of nun and Madonna. The film will be in Technicolor, and will run the better part of four hours...
...Miracle of Morgan's Creek (Paramount) is a little like taking a nun on a roller coaster. Its ordinary enough subject -the difficulties of a small-town girl, pregnant, without a husband-is treated with the catnip giddiness to be expected from Writer-Director Preston Sturges (The Great McGinty, The Lady Eve). The overall result is one of the most violently funny comedies, one of the most original, vigorous and cheerfully outrageous moving pictures that ever came out of Hollywood. The picture also has its faults-both as fun and as cinema...