Word: carnalities
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There were plenty of prizes, but, as suspected, the very carnal Czechoslovakian film Exstase, even though it so far surpassed every other film in popularity that the Vatican's Osservatore Romano was forced to publish biting editorials (TIME, Aug. 27), won none of them. Prize for the most entertaining film went to Frank Capra's It Happened One Night. Douglas Fairbanks' British-made Private Life of Don Juan was voted the best world première. For giving the largest presentation of films, the Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America got a loving cup. Acclaimed...
...understood only by a vain popular novelist. Shrewd Lady Jane puts Sybil and the novelist in adjoining bedrooms outside which a nightingale is singing. As Lady Jane expected, they take advantage of propinquity. And as she also expected, flighty Sybil is sorely disappointed that her spiritual affinity has carnal appetites. To send Sybil back to her husband with a clear conscience and a shut mouth, to shock Liza into decent behavior, Lady Jane then tells her girls that for years she has been the mistress of a man who has just been made Viceroy of India. That seems to settle...
...Pilar's saintliness was too much for them: when Juan realized that she was as impregnable as his father's purpose he ran off with renegade Miguel to be a Communist. Pepe, burnt out by night life, was killed in the ring. Don José's carnal love for Pilár cooled into paternal affection. He settled down philosophically in the country with his spiritual daughter, turned slowly from a lusty old rascal into a nice...
...charmingly puts it. Incalculable advantages indeed! One cannot measure these by the sufferings of a persecuted race and an exploited class; nor can one see them in the destruction of culture and civilization which is ensuing from a militaristic, war-provoking nationalism in which Hanfstaengl takes such carnal pleasure...
...other motifs, industry, politics, crime, letters, society, are the themes of pure love, which are orchestrated in the story of Jallez' struggles; and those of lust, culminating in the lyrical description of Jerphanion's tortured search for physical love in the streets of Paris, "kingdom of the carnal Eros." Romains is equally sympathetic and equally successful in his treatment of either phase...