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...beginning, anyhow-to the quick judgment of another movie veteran, Director Henry King. King spotted Colman on Broadway in 1922 (supporting Ruth Chatterton and Henry Miller in La Tendresse), and gave him the male lead opposite Lillian Gish in The White Sister (1923). Since Miss Gish became a nun in the picture, all Colman could do was look frustrated, but he did that so handsomely that his movie career was assured. During the middle and late '20s he and the late John Gilbert ran neck & neck as Hollywood's foremost leading men. Gilbert had the edge on heavy...
Meanwhile, back in St. Pierre, dejected Miss Reed has decided to become a nun. Sister Lana & husband get home just in time for a big, tasteless church scene in which Donna takes her vows as Lana makes calf's eyes at Donna's onetime man. The moral of all this seems to be: if you want to be happy, be sure to marry someone you don't love...
Though Dixon's handful of Protestants had never liked the idea of nuns teaching their children, they kept their peace so long as the church owned the building where classes were held. But two years ago, Dixon's 800 citizens raised $13,000 to build the community a grade school of its own. Protestant parents were dismayed to discover that the county school board had hired a nun as principal and four nuns as teachers. There were crucifixes on the wall, Catholic prayers before & after class. A delegation of Protestants complained to the state board of education...
Kenneth Koch's verse, as he himself describes it, struts "on a pilgrimage of music." Exhibiting a lively manipulation of language, Koch, however, sometimes plays vaguely with ideas that fail to fit the form be constructs so well. Two poems by Seymour Lawrence, "City Nun," and "The Beggar," present an honest attempt by their author to escape the introspective not that seems to have enmeshed most young writers. Both Koch and Lawrence received honorable mention in the Garrison Prize competition...
...Lord said unto Moses, Take thee Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit, and lay thine hand upon him; and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation; and give him a charge in their sight. . . . Numbers...