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...these holy precincts is a nun. The way of the spirit is no longer attractive to her and she sets her feet in the ways of the world, shedding her sacred garments and going forth with a gay knight. Then does the Blessed Virgin descend from her high place, don the robes of the nun and take the nun's place in the convent. Then the people weep and cry out, for their sacred image has been lost...
...nun the way of the world is stony and studded with thorns as well as gold. She attends a vast banquet in the Hall of a count's castle, she becomes the bride of an emperor. And at last she faces death and revolution (black and red) and the winter night, cold and miserable...
Anon the way of the Spirit seems wondrous sweet to her and she returns to the cathedral, and the Virgin, who has all these years played the part of a model nun, casts off the nun's garments and again becomes a sacred image. As she does so she takes into her arms the child which the nun has brought back, the child which dies as she returns to the way of the spirit...
...Mary's consent to her entering the "flickers" (cinema). A husband was by no means a whole career for her. She talked of self-expression, said the cinema was "the most real form of romance modern life expresses." When invited to play the Madonna, which she alternates with the Nun in The Miracle, she "felt almost as though I had a vocation to act the part...
...Mayfair's wit and called the original of Michael Arlen's green-hatted lady. Visitors last winter in the Bahamas saw her parade the beach in pink bathing pajamas, and one night dance in the sand around a palm-shadowed driftwood blaze, a barefooted nymph of the tropics. Madonna, nun, nymph, notable, she is first and foremost a young lady in love with life...