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...baby. The play does not hide the unnatural and even pathetic aspects of the monastic life, but it treats the convent and its inhabitants with such tenderness and compassion that the Church itself would probably approve. Especially moving is the contrast presented in the second act, when the young Teresa says goodbye to the nuns who have raised her and introduces her finance to them. The nuns have long since renounced all interest in men and do not regret it, and yet they understand Teresa's feelings perfectly...
...enough. Almost every role is tinged with didacticism; the actors seem obviously to be reciting lines from a play. This difficulty leads to a considerable loss of emotional content and also of humor--the play is, after all, billed as "a comedy." At times, as in the repartee between Teresa's fiance Antonio and the nuns, Woodruff's direction is simply too slow, so that the question-answer sequence proceeds too jerkily and much of its humor evaporates. The director has also missed an important element of the play by neglecting the time dimension; he has failed to effect...
...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...
...Negro man forced from a bus at pistol-point because he did not have the correct change. Delia Perkins testified that a driver had called her an "ugly black ape." Richard Jordan said his pregnant wife had been forced to give her seat to a white woman. Georgia Teresa Gilmore said when she boarded a bus, the driver shouted, "Come out, nigger, and go in the back door," and when she stepped off, drove away...
Married. Niven Busch, 52, novelist (Duel in the Sun) and screenwriter (In Old Chicago, The Westerner); and Carmencita Baker, 28, West Coast socialite; he for the fourth time (his third: Cinemactress Teresa Wright), she for the first; in San Francisco...