Word: passion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...husband, Iowa, some 50 years ago. When she was still in short dresses, her father moved to Whittier, Calif., opened a bank, weathered the 1890 slump, went on to Monterey. Lou was a tall lanky girl, not over-strong. Out of banking hours her father had a passion for the out-of-doors, which his daughter inherited. Together they went on long camping trips up into the mountains (Mrs. Henry preferred to remain behind, ride in a surrey). Mr. Henry taught his girl to know trees, flowers, rocks, birds, animals. He gave her lessons in building fires, tent-pitching, sleeping...
...scenes of the type resorted to here are no longer convulsive for their own sake. Nor does pleasant hokum like the sale of candy with a souvenir in each & every box, redeem the longer intervals of sluggish comedy. Henry Hull makes the actor-mayor only a conventional juvenile. The Passion Play, traditional drama of Christ's last days, has been given for more than six centuries on the hills of Freiburg, Germany.* Last week the Freiburg players appeared in Manhattan, presented by Morris Gest, directed by David Belasco. The locale was the gigantic Hippodrome, onetime scene of elephantine musical...
...shapes. On Calvary the greensward was cool, terribly oblivious of the burdened crosses. Solemnities of tone from orchestra, organ and choir sounded through the entire pageant. In the street outside a fire siren wailed. For more than a century and a half the Fassnacht family has dominated the Freiburg Passion Play, passing its privilege to its heirs. In Manhattan six Fassnachts appeared. Georg was a tragically mercurial Judas. Georg Jr. was Johannes. Amalie, Elsa and Augusta were respectively Mary, Mary Magdalene, the Blind Woman. Adolf, the eldest, gave to the Christus a grave presence, a tenor voice of such reedy...
Bethlehem, Pa., May 10-11, Bach Festival at which Bach's Passion According to St. Matthew and Mass in B Minor will be given. Dr. J. Fred Wolle directs the Bach Choir, members of the Philadelphia Orchestra, distinguished soloists...
Best current pictures listed (A) according to. merit (B) according to the money they made last week: (A) The Passion of Joan of Arc-Silent French version of history's greatest courtroom scene. The Divine Lady-Love among the frigates. The Spieler-Original story of carnival life. Wild Orchids- Greta Garbo in a bedroom for three. Strong Boy-Promotions of a baggage-smasher. (B) The Wild Party ($42,300, Buffalo, Buffalo) ; Wolf. Song ($34,000, Paramount, Los Angeles); Noah's Ark ($20,000, Aldine, Philadelphia); Weary River ($7,900, Des Moines, Des Moines...