Word: conventions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...setting of both acts is in a convent.--In the first of the holy sisters are presented with a foundling, which their doctor adopts, and they agree to take care of. The second act occurs twenty years later. The foundling has grown to womanhood, and the sisters are preparing her trousseau, for she has fallen in love with Antonio, an architect, and the wedding is imminent. Antonio and his bride go away leaving the nuns, especially Sister Joanna of the Cross--who has acted as a mother to the girl--plunged in deepest gloom...
Included in the cast are two Harvard men, R. L. Morehouse '24 and E. R. Childs '24, who take the only masculine parts in the cast of twelve persons. Mr. Joseph Larkin, of the 47 Workshop, is coaching the play, the scenes of which are laid in a convent...
...portrait was presented by the Queen to the Carmelite Convent near Madrid, in recognition of the hospitality of the nuns during a 'disagreement with her unfaithful husband. The nuns, on receiving the portrait, intended subtle flattery to Isabella by painting the robes of the sisterhood over the rich court brocades 'depicted by Velasquez...
...bride of Christ. His ancient comrade, Pelamon, says: "My son, ne'er mingle with the people of this era"; Nicias laughs in scorn; the mob throws stones; yet he succeeds in reforming Thaïs. Thaïs sees the emptiness of pleasure, is led in ecstacy to a convent. Then Athana? leaves her, but finds that he loves her in the flesh. Madly he denounces God, says nothing is real " but life and passion in the human," returns to the convent. But beautiful Thaïs is converted and dies singing...
Meanwhile she married Signor Checci, actor and journalist. To the couple was born one daughter, Manchette, who was brought up in a convent and forbidden forever to discuss the stage, even with her mother. Manchette married an Oxford...