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Sister Mary Veronica Ryan, nursing nun LL.D...
Married. Elinor Medill Patterson, 22, daughter of famed editor-publisher Joseph Medill Patterson of the Chicago Tribune, Daily News (Manhattan) and Liberty (5? Magazine), recently starred by showman Morris Gest as the nun of Max Reinhardt's Miracle, graduate of Miss Spence's School; to Russell Sturgis Codman Jr., 29, son of socially prominent Russell Sturgis Codman, graduate of Groton and Harvard, noted international oarsman, successful Boston real estate broker...
When the Mexican Government, that harsh organization, sent the foreign Roman Catholic priesthood packing from the country (TIME, Feb. 6, LATIN AMERICA), a very old nun from a convent in Mexico City took ship for Manhattan. She arrived last week-Lorenza Rivarez, Mother Superior of the Order of St. Theresa-the first of the expelled believers to tell what scenes of abomination have been enacted in nunneries and churches. Misfortune had made her shy; her rapid, sorrowful words clicked like beads, pattered like rain; a Chancine priest translated the Spanish into French; a reporter put the French into English...
Rights of Poverty. Sister Marie, a nun of St. Quentin, having sworn poverty ? can she collect damages? A motorist ran her down, fractured her foot, offered to pay medical expenses but said she could not collect an indemnity. A French court decreed she could, and awarded 30,000 francs. "Because a life is given to the unfortunate is no reason for considering that that life is without value," said the Court...
Chicagoans were already well acquainted with Miss Patterson as an actress, had often seen the accompanying photograph of her as Nun Megildis in The Miracle. They were further supplied with a portrait of her in her opera cloak and pearls; with a view of the red lacquer ballroom of the Palmer House, crowded with fashionable guests, where she made her début; with a "closeup" of a boudoir table which might have been hers, displaying more pearls and two jars of Pond's cold and vanishing creams...