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...legend of St. Agnes is obscure. Agreed upon are the facts that she was born a Christian in Rome. When she was about 12, a pagan Roman, Sempronius, insisted she marry his pagan son and renounce Christianity. She refused. Where upon Sempronius ordered her outraged. Miraculously she preserved her virginity. Then Sempronius ordered her burned at the stake. The fagots would not ignite. Thereupon the officer commanding her captors drew his sword and brutally sliced her head from her shoulders. This happened Jan. 21, 304, in the reign of Diocletian...
Seventeen years ago the primitive, pagan rhythms of Le Sacre du Printemps established Russian Igor Stravinsky as the most original, most compelling of modern composers. Last week in Boston his Symphonic de Psaumes (Symphony of Psalms), in spirit far removed from his sensual celebration of fertility, was given as a part of the Boston Symphony's ambitious semicentennial program. The new Stravinsky takes as text three excerpts from the Psalms (in the English version: Psalm XXXIX, Verses 12, 13; XL: 1, 2, 3; CL complete), uses a chorus to describe in Latin the transition from abject penitence to exultant...
...PAGAN LADY?Lenore Ulric exercises her charms on a visiting divine...
...Pagan Lady. This is the first time in 13 years that bushy-haired, voluptuous Lenore Ulric (Tiger Rose, Kiki, Lulu Belle, Mima) has not appeared under the aegis of Producer David Belasco. Gossipists have assumed that the reason for the rift is that Miss Ulric was unwilling to appear in the current Belasco offering, Dancing Partner, that the memory of unsuccessful Mima still rankles. But tradition dictates that any Belasco star who marries automatically leaves his service.* Pagan Lady is Actress Ulric's first vehicle since she was wed to Sidney Blackmer...
...about a minister and a bad girl. One can generally count on a second act curtain in which the minister, having visibly weakened in his fight against the devil and his pomps during Act I, abandons himself to the delights of the flesh. Examples: Romance, Rain. The scene of Pagan Lady is laid in Florida, in a little town to which a convention of preachers has been attracted. One of the divines is Franchot Tone, a capable young man recently admitted to the Theatre Guild. Mr. Tone meets Lenore Ulric, a hijacker's property, and they struggle through...