Word: trappists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sort of nuisance to this particular bundle of joy, for gentlemen, those pictures you've seen don't lie. She provides the visual stimulus, while Ethel Merman tickles the erotic funnybone. Ethel could put over a song to a deaf mute and teach the facts of life to a Trappist monk by gestures alone. And also, there's Bert Lahr, who seems to have brought the Lahr leer to a new stage of perfection, for not a scene is safe from his clowning...
...identified and claimed by their relatives in the spring. The remainder of the solemn, slow-moving picture was filmed in the French monastery of La Trappe, to enter which Director Alexandre needed to employ as much wire-pulling and salesman ship as he did in making Cloistered. The Trappist monks, one of the strictest of Catholic orders, speak to one another only by signs, and permitted Director Alexandre no special staging, no retakes. A much better job of photography, the Trappist sequence of Monastery is more sombre than the St. Bernard, shows such Trappist activities as the monks washing...
...Mother Superior of the convent where she was brought up a difficult question. "What," Domini asks, "am I to do?" "Go away . . . perhaps, to the desert," says the Mother Superior. This is bad advice. First person Domini meets in the desert is Boris Andtovsky (Charles Boyer), a renegade Trappist monk out to discover, after breaking his vow of lifelong silence, just what it is that makes the world go round. When he has scraped acquaintance with Domini in a night club, they go riding. Without telling her that the only job that he has ever held was that of liqueur...
...caravan whose manager is a bubbling young Algerian named Batouch (Joseph Schildkraut). Tripping about the North Sahara they enjoy life to the full until one night a French Army officer, lost with his troop, happens on their camp. When Batouch brings in a bottle of the Trappist liqueur Lagarnine, the officer remembers where he has met Boris before. Without so much as saying, "It's a small world after all," he goes off in a rage...
Edmond Obrecht was born in France in 1852, four years after 40 French Trappists began building their vast monastery in Kentucky, not far from Bardstown and its Cathedral. Professing his vows at La Grande Trappe where the Order (Reformed Cistercians) received its nickname, Father Obrecht early learned Trappist discipline-to sleep in his rough wool habit; arise at 2 a. m.; spend the day in devotions and hard work;* dig his own grave; speak during the day only to his superiors and during the "Great Silence" of the night, to no one at all. A friend of the last four...