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...Brooklyn last week with Evangelist Hill was a character rarely seen now in city churches, an "Escaped Nun." Good-humored Lou Hill told of his son, a ''little tike who knows Jesus and rides up and down the street on his velocipede all day long singing 'Onward Christian Soldiers.'" Lou Hill likes to sing himself. In the Bible Church of hoodlum Cicero, Ill. he got himself photographed in an impromptu hymn sing (see cut) with four other gangsters turned evangelist: Bert Baker, onetime Capone man, Fred Jacover, "high class confidence man," Fred Ingersoll, "slickest automobile thief...
...Luther said a plowman can be more pious at his plowing than a nun at her prayers. We say a Storm Trooper in his fighting is more in God's will than a Church that does not jubilantly join in the call for the Third Reich...
...Angela's previous predicaments are larks compared to what happens when Giovanni is at the front. He is brought down in an air fight over enemy terrain. Thinking he is dead, Angela studies to be a nun. Giovanni recovers but gets caught trying to walk back to Italy. By the time he escapes prison camp, Angela has taken her vow of chastity. Giovanni pleads with her to break it. She has no sooner convinced him that this is impossible than a bomb drops on Giovanni. This time he is really done...
Cases were so radically distributed in social strata (a nun, a baker, a one-day-old child, a medical student), in type of employment and geographical location that both contagion and food-poisoning seemed ruled...
...pretending sexual interest in their sister. Rasputin not only solves this problem but gives two of the Barrymores a chance to execute their specialties. Lionel spits on the floor and regurgitates even more loudly than he did in Grand Hotel. Ethel wears a nurse's headdress like the nun's towel she had in The Kingdom of God and hums her lines so as to sound thoroughly regal. Director Richard Boleslavsky, imported from the Moscow Art Theatre, saw to it that the production had surface authenticity, managed sometimes to make it seem more than what it probably...