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Fortunately, Anna does put a few new twists in the story of bad girl turned nun. With the Italian brand of striking realism, the tensions of an operating room are exceptionally vivid. And Anna's song and dance in a disreputable night club is as sultry as any I have seen...
...December. Last week she announced that she would make no more. After Hollywood goodbyes, she entered the novitiate of the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth, Kans., the order that staffs St. John's Hospital. There she hopes to stay for two years, until she may become a nun...
...seemed to say, 'I don't care what the quality of the art work is, so long as its content is innocuous, or perhaps favorably disposed in our direction . . .' A film featuring a saint is a film of majestic technical excellence. A film showing a nun driving a jeep is a superbly made comedy. A film embracing a jolly priest, a self-sacrificing Catholic mother and an anti-Communist message must be defended in the diocesan press from those irresponsible esthetes . . . who have had the meanness and the malice to question...
Sister Aidan, a 33-year-old Irish Dominican nun, and a physician set off in her tiny English car, to take baskets of food to her Negro patients in the rowdy South African city of East London. At the entrance to the segregated Negro "location" -a maze of tin-can shanties where every other baby dies at birth-she found herself in the midst of a bloody pitched battle between East London's white cops and a mob of tribesmen. The police had broken up an illegal Negro prayer meeting; the result was a race riot which blazed...
...year-old Raymond Radiguet showed a boy drawn into a love affair with an older married woman and swamped by the first rush of passion. In Awakening, Jean-Baptiste Rossi, 16, told a startling but sensitive story of a love affair between a youngster and a Roman Catholic nun. In The Illusionist (written three years ago) 22-year-old Françoise Mallet, a Parisian housewife and mother, tells perhaps the strangest tale of all, that of a 15-year-old girl who falls in love with her father's mistress. When the book appeared in France last year...