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...tressed Norwegians in embroidered blue skirts mingled with black-haired Ghanaians in flowing brown and gold robes. Swiss Frauen sported delicate lace caps, and Icelanders regally balanced gold diadems with trailing white veils. Here and there through the colorful throng could be seen the somber black habit of a nun. Remarkably little feminine chatter disturbed the solemnity of the occasion: the twelfth International Congress of Midwives...
...that day, he has splashed about so energetically in the cinema swim that now he is established beyond question as one of Hollywood's most successful screenwriters, as a director who ranks with George Stevens (The Diary of Anne Frank), William Wyler (Ben Hur) and Fred Zinneman (A Nun's Story) in the Big Four, and as a witsnapper, fathead-shrinker, Sunset Boulevardier and allround character who has achieved notoriety not often rivaled in movieland...
...blood-drenched ending is inevitable. Manuel returns seven years later rich as Cortes, but Soledad, to escape a nun's life, has married. At first the village priest persuades the blighted lover to set vengeance aside, but at last Manuel forces an ending so bloody - and romantic - as to put Carmen to shame...
Buick Electra Playhouse (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). The series dramatizing the works of Ernest Hemingway continues with The Gambler, the Nun and the Radio. The 1933 story of a wounded man in a Montana hospital, in which Hemingway makes one of his rare philosophical observations: "Bread is the opium of the people." With Richard Conte, Eleanor Parker...
...Presnell produces a moment of ulcer-perforating tension-deeper and deeper the pitchfork slashes into a load of garbage that conceals the tender bodies of nine children. Yet just as often he relaxes the show with a twinkle of sly ecclesiastical humor-"The soul,'' a middle-aged nun announces as she gazes in seraphic innocence at the motor of a stalled truck, '"is about to depart from the battery.'' Or again, the script jerks the customer out of his socks with a gesture of almost electrocuting theatricality-knocked down by the fist of a Nazi...