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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Judith LaFrance, as the Prioress of the Convent, was an impressive combination of patience, understanding, and mild authority. Margaret Smith as the crotchety but good-hearted Mistress of Novices rendered the part excellently--quite as well, I thought, as it was done in New York. And Carol Ganem, as "Sister Crucifixion," captured that character's holier-than-thou attitude very well. In the second act, however, she failed to demonstrate the latent love and sympathy that should surge up when she says farewell to Teresa...

Author: By Stephen R. Barnett, | Title: The Cradle Song | 8/2/1956 | See Source »

Sure that being guardian angel to a nun "is a lot more fun/in the race to the state of grace" because all nuns do is pray all day, the angel agrees to change places with her new charge, Sister Angelica, to show her how simple a nun's life really can be. In no time the angel is in hot water with the mother superior for her angelic frankness. When Sister Angelica tells her to stop it, the angel complains: "Do you mean I cannot tell the truth in a convent?" No, says the sister. "Use mental reservation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Sister Act | 7/30/1956 | See Source »

Married. Archduchess Charlotte of Habsburg, 35, middle daughter of Empress Zita and the late Charles I (last Emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire), sister of Austrian Pretender Archduke Otto of Habsburg, and longtime (1943-56) welfare worker (under the name of Charlotte de Bar) in Manhattan's East Harlem; and Duke George of Mecklenburg, 56; she for the first time, he for the second; in Pocking, Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 30, 1956 | 7/30/1956 | See Source »

Died. Alice Muriel Astor Pleydell-Bouverie, 54, four-times-married daughter of Colonel John Jacob Astor (who went down with the Titanic), sister of Vincent, half-sister of John Jacob Astor III, onetime wife of Russian Prince Serge Obolensky; of a stroke; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 30, 1956 | 7/30/1956 | See Source »

...mother as the countryside can offer. In rapid succession, the father dies of a stroke after a drinking bout, Joe's lovable wife dies of TB after bearing two children, and Joe steps out to the barn and puts a bullet through his brain. Ella, a younger sister and her mother have moved to a nearby small town and taken Joe's infant sons with them. But tragedy has not softened mamma. Her nose comes out of the Old Testament only to sniff disapprovingly, and Ella's fun is limited to sneak meetings with a minister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Prairie Obit | 7/30/1956 | See Source »

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