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Last week a symposium of rumors emanating from Spain would have read: "The Sefiorita has entered the Convent of Miracruz at San Sebastian as a nun, except that she has secretly married the Dictator and a public announcement will soon be made. Since the engagement is broken she has returned all his gifts and is keeping them in hopes that he may relent. She is living in seclusion at the Old Private Hotel Miracruz in San Sebastian, heartbroken and joyfully planning the details of a magnificent State wedding to take place next fall...
...courtiers agreed that the grimaces of her dwarf must have frightened her into what would otherwise have been a most dubious production. The black girl was baptized Louise Marie, and sent to a convent where she stayed until her death. French records of the period speak of a "black nun...
...Rogers' conclusion: "The Black Nun* might have been a mystery in those days but in this hardboiled age we are inclined to be a bit more sceptical...
Robinson: "... I have heard the Senator from Alabama a dozen times during the last year make what he calls his anti-Catholic speech. I have heard him denounce the Catholic Church and the Pope of Rome and the cardinal and the bishop and the priest and the nun until I am sick and tired of it, as a Democrat...
...cast was an equally daring move. Only one of the principal female characters was interpreted by an actress who had had speaking experience on the stage. The role of Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons, was entrusted to a young foreign woman?Rosamond Pinchot of the U. S. As the nun in The Miracle she had won recognition as a pantomimist. Now she was called upon to speak for the first time in her career?and in a strange tongue before foreigners. Cast with her were such clearly Teutonic actresses as Katta Sterna (Puck), Maria Solveg (Titania), Tillie Losch (First...