Word: joans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every child should know are in the series of oblong French story books which Maurice Boutet de Monvel, Bernard's father, illustrated nearly 50 years ago. The late Senator William Andrews Clark knew them well and commissioned Boutet de Monvel pere to do a long mural panel of Joan of Arc which was one of the most important objects in the amazing house he built on Fifth Avenue. Senator Clark's Joan is now in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington. As children Bernard and his brother Roger, now a writer, posed for that panel for hours...
...possibility of seeing Joan Crawford in a South Sea setting, as the "painted" woman in a tropical "cloud-burst of passion," is enough to bring the average moviegoer hustling to the theatre. The picture "Rain" will take care of his emotions,--faculties be damned. But when there hovers in the back-ground of this super-picture a touching drama and a powerful idea, written down by Somerset Maugham for his play of the same name, the intellectual man, the "well-read" man of the movies, will find it worth his while to see this screen version of a famous play...
Whether the producers found in the big frame and wide mouth of Joan Crawford a ready-made Sadie Thompson, or whether they softened to respect an author who bids fair to fill Hollywood unconsciously with excellent South Sea scenarios is hard to say. Whatever has been spoiled in this production is that which has been added to the stage show, not taken away. The result is a sincere impressive play, full, but not blown up with sentiment and passion, and interrupted constantly by manifestations of the mechanical ingenuity of the producers. These Hollywood moguls obviously feel that it would reflect...
...flat, Opus 81b for String Quartet and Two Horns (with Messrs. W. Valkenier and M. Lannoye of the Boston Symphony Orchestra); Hindemith, Third String Quartet; and Brahms, Quartet in C minor, Opus 51. The members of the quartet are Norbert Lauga, first violin, Clarence Kundson, second violin, Joan Cauhapo, viola, and Yves Chardon, 'cello, all members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra...
...Joan Blondell is advertised as "the girl who knows all the answers," so she is probably informed on the question of just how flat her work can fall. "Big City Blucs" demonstrates the answer plainly. It resorts to the old device, a frame plot: to point the theme, which is the glamour of a metropolis, the cinema is "framed" with opening and closing scenes of provincial simplicity. The work of Miss Blondell and of Mr. Eric Linden is mediocre, and the theme is worked up cheaply and unimaginatively...