THE REGENT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 July 1938, Page 2

THE REGENT

“CLOISTERED.” Convent life has for years been the subject of much conjecture. To the average life-loving, worldly man and woman, it presents a problem that is unfathomable, for, when the convent doors clang shut on girls seeking admission to the cloistered life, it means the renunciation of most things that the ordinary person holds dear. For the first time in 2000 years the mystery of convent life has been revealed. “Cloistered,” the remarkable film that will commence at the Regent tonight, answers questions that have ever intrigued the curious. Nothing in this picture was “staged” or “acted.” It records faithfully the daily routine of nuns in an enclosed order, who live in a world of their own, and it reveals many strange ceremonies. There are shown such scenes as the impressive burial rites of living novices, the shearing of the hair from the heads of beautiful postulants before their profession, the Magdalens, women whose pasts have not been without stain, wearing their crowns of thorns, and three groups of women—Penitents, Magdalens, and Sisters living under one roof but fated never to see each other during their lifetime. Nuns are seen working as carpenters, bricklayers, typistes, printers, bootmakers, gardeners, and plasterers. “Cloistered” has been a tremendous success with all classes of audiences abroad. In New York alone it played for over four months in one of the principal theatres, and had similar long runs in other States. In England it created amazing interest, and nothing like it has been produced before.