Word: virginals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...passing one of the many monasteries which cling to those hillsides, he paused before a picture of the Virgin. He put his last coin in the offering box, there & then resolved to enter the Greek Orthodox priesthood. An uncle, a well-to-do priest, shepherded him through the schools of Karditsa, where he excelled as a wrestler and javelin thrower...
...young hero, who has somewhere picked up an accent that is neither Canadian, cockney, nor English, is opposed by his foster-father's sister (Catherine Willard), a "congenital virgin," and is not very elaborately received by the object of his attentions, either: she has "acquired her virginity," but she naturally has a change of heart before the final curtain...
...shows, still more dreadfully, the destruction wrought upon the mild, brave people who lived in it: children who were shot down as they prayed; gnarled stacks of bodies burned alive; people who were killed with their hands tied behind them; a bayoneted mother & child at the feet of the Virgin. It shows, among the living, bayonet wounds, and the agonized collapse of a woman who has been raped; and, in the faces of those physically untouched, wounds of the soul no less piteous to see. It shows the starved American prisoners and the American dead, and, in the immediate aftermath...
...virgin land teeming with game, and beside waters teeming with fish, how did New England's Pilgrim Fathers manage nearly to starve to death...
Prospects for 1946 appear none too bright. Said Anni Rutz (who has twice played the Virgin Mary): "We lost more than 100 men in the war and new characters must be trained for the roles. Willy Bierling, who played John, is now a prisoner of war in the United States. Many women have married since 1934." (In most roles, married women are barred. Ritto Kosch, daughter of the town druggist, slated to play Mary Magdalene in 1940, has since disqualified herself by acquiring a husband and two children.) Sure of a role is Hans Zwink, Judas in 1934, who follows...