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...been the handsome, red brick, well-landscaped Monastery of the Holy Cross, across the Hudson from Hyde Park. There the monks rise at 5:25 each morning with the words: "Thanks be to God." Four hours of their day are spent in meditation, prayer and the seven tradi tional offices of worship (Lauds, Prime, Terce, Sext, None, Vespers and Com pline), in which psalms are sung in ancient plain song. During the rest of the day the monks clean house, mow lawns, cultivate their gardens, collect their laundry and mail (in a 1941 station wagon), study in a well-stocked...
...costumes are by Cecil Beaton, who evidently lost his heart but not his wits in somebody's attic. The characters, their plight, their lines, their postures and emo tional attitudes are as exquisitely stylized as classical ballet...
...Third-seeded, Dorothy May Bundy, 27, of Santa Monica, Calif.; her first na tional clay-courts tennis championship ; by defeating fourth-seeded Mary Arnold 7-5, 6-4 ; at the Detroit Tennis Club. Daughter of May Sutton and Tom Bundy, both former national-title holders, the new champion scored the upset of the year by eliminating National Champion Pauline Betz, 7-5, 6-3, in the semifinals...
...picture's theme is the rise of Na tional Socialism from the gutter to the June 1934 Blood Purge. The film is a sober attempt to screen history. It is forceful as propaganda, sharp as cartooning, interesting as journalism, sometimes exciting as cinema. But it is inadequate to its subject. In part this failure is due to the attempt to pack 16 of the most crowded, crucial, sinister years of modern German history into 101 minutes of lively cinema. In part it is due to the fact that Nazi characters and motives are simplified to the point of absurdity...
...chief sport was riding horseback. Once she was thrown, but climbed back on the nearest horse as soon as she got out of the hospital. She had a "planned life." She became executive director of station KPRC, a director of the Cleburne Na tional Bank, a member of the Board of Regents at Texas State Teachers College, president of the Texas League of Women Voters, Texas chairman of the Women's Committee for the New York World's Fair. In 1941, the War Department ap pointed her boss of a new women's publicity bureau...