Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rembrandt, however, set out this time to paint a picture, not a portrait. He showed the company tumbling out of their clubhouse, the captain and his lieutenant in brilliant highlight, some of the others crowded into almost total shadow. The company were hopping mad. As they had already paid for the canvas, they accepted it but hung it in an anteroom of the clubhouse. From that job dated Rembrandt's decline as a fashionable portrait painter. While the company were bickering about it, Saskia, who had borne four children, sickened and died...
...Mad Love (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). This adaptation from Les Mains d'Orlac by Maurice Renard is one of the most completely horrible stories of the year. It presents Peter Lorre as a maniac surgeon who can do anything with a scalpel but nothing at all with Yvonne Orlac (Frances Drake), an actress who has no use for him because she loves her pianist husband, Stephen (Colin Clive). When Stephen's hands are mangled in a railroad wreck, Dr. Gogol (Lorre) replaces them with the hands of a murderer who has that day been guillotined. Thereafter the hands...
...Mad In White Plains, N. Y., Mrs. Elizabeth T. Ross, high school teacher, was thoroughly mad. Suing for divorce, she charged Alfred C. Ross, certified public accountant, with 71 specific acts of cruelty, including 36 generally unhusbandly habits. Samples: He stayed in the bathroom for an hour and a half while dinner was waiting; he left an abusive diary lying around; he told guests they had obviously come just for the free meal; he took his vacations by himself; he called her extravagant and spent money on fishing tackle. Alfred Ross's countercharge: She had called him "a coward...
...Mad clean through, Signor Mussolini ordered instantly expelled from Italy the Tribune's Rome correspondent of seven-and-a-half years, David Darrah. He was hustled onto a train by Fascist police with only such money as he had in his pocket, Mrs. Darrah hastily rushing down from their home with a few necessaries in a suitcase. Snorted the Tribune's pugnacious publisher Col. Robert R. McCormick: "Send another man to Rome to replace Darrah? No, I don't think so. Why should I send a man there just to take Government handouts...
...night, he suddenly discovers that he has a real and appalling ability to see into the future. He correctly foretells one disaster and his fortune seems made. Except for one profitable Derby winner, further prophecies are all of death. His wife (Fay Wray) begins to think he is going mad and the public begins to think he is a menace. A solution, however, is handy. His clairvoyance possesses him only when he is in the presence of another woman (Jane Baxter), who serves as his "battery," charging him with psychic powers. When she retires from his life, he loses...