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“THE BELLS OF ST. MARY’S” Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. “The Bells of St. Mary’s” received enthusiastic plaudits from audiences that sat entranced through the human, heartwarming story. It found much to laugh at and an occasional spot for a surreptitious tear. Producer-Director Leo McCarey’s first production since his all-con-quering “Going My Way” is delightful, and resulted in its stars, Bing Crosby and Ingrid Bergman, being nominated for Academy awards for the second year in succession. Bing has the role of Father O’Malley, newly appointed pastor of the somewhat run-down parochial, school of St. Mary’s, and Miss Bergman is seen as the Sister Superior, Sister Benedict, whose ideas as to the best methods of child-training do not always coincide with those of the new pastor. Though the nuns greatly outnumber him, Father O’Malley manages to hold his own, thanks chiefly, to the warm sense of humour existing within the walls of St. Mary’s. This reaches its height when Sister Benedict actually takes it upon herself to instruct a too-inoffensive youngster in the noble art of self-defence.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 56, 21 July 1947, Page 5
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178REGENT THEATRE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 56, 21 July 1947, Page 5
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