Word: soeurs
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...role of the raving Prioress should rightfully contrast with the sane and balanced Grandier, but Anne Bancroft still overplays it. Her Prioress believes too completely in her demoniac possesion, so we miss that nether-land between consciousness and unconsciousness in which the real Soeur Jeanne acted. Miss Bancroft also plays the unpossessed sequences with an overflowing wholesomeness, while Huxley discloses her character as both bitter and shallow...
What Ed wants, Ed usually gets. And what he wanted Right Now for the Ed Sullivan Show was Sister Luc-Gabrielle, 28, better known as the Singing Nun, Soeur Sourire, who zipped to the top of the record heap with Dominique. But Soeur Sourire shies away from her success. So Good Roman Catholic Ed asked the New York archdiocese to put in a word, and off he flew to tape a carefully supervised 18-minute session in the Dominican monastery near Waterloo, Belgium. "As a Catholic and a gentleman, I wouldn't argue with them," said...
...SULLIVAN SHOW (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). First public presentation in the U.S. of Soeur Sourire, "The Singing Nun," taped at her convent at Fichermont, Belgium...
...Philips executives heard the recorded songs, they flipped. The songs of Sister Luc-Gabrielle were light, melodic, and as gently pleasing as the sounds of a country evening. Instead of the few pressings requested, Philips turned out thousands, sent them out into the commercial slipstream as the album of "Soeur Sourire" (Sister Smile). Almost instantly, Soeur Sourire became a byword throughout Belgium, The Netherlands, France, Spain, Canada, Switzerland and Germany...
...little girls repeated after the teacher: "Do not answer Ja, say Oui, ma soeur. . . . Voici la table. Voilà le mur. Void le crucifix. This is the table. That is the wall. Here is the crucifix...