Word: passion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passion of Joan of Arc- Unforgettable French Reproduction of the trial and death of a saint...
...Passion of Joan of Arc (French). You might not think there could be any new way of telling a story in pictures, until you see this film in which the trial and death of Joan of Arc are told, in silence, by the expression of faces not disfigured by make-up and photographed from all angles, mostly in closeup. Director Carl Theodore Dreyer, a Dane, is not concerned with history, except that he uses accurately and intelligently such evidence as the 15th Century has left him about the girl who saved her country from its enemies, and was later tortured...
From India, Dr. Jones brought this message to the U. S.: "The biggest task before America at the present time is the spiritualization of the vast resources which have been put into our hands. If these get us, we are gone. If we get behind them with a passion to serve, then they rise from the sordid to the sacred...
Actress Anglin's discreet linking of voice and gesture is in the grand tradition of acting, a rare delight in the modern theatre. But Playwright Esme Wynne-Tyson's gusts of passion are too like the winds of old melodrama. They proceed from an artificial churning contraption...
...manners, "Let Us Be Gay" and Basil Sydney and Mary Ellis are together again in A. A. Milne's slight and not too entertaining whimsy, "Meet the Prince." That frail poetic tragedy, "Paola and Francesca", replete with pretty costumes and phrases such as "the stars in palpitating cosmic passion held" has Jane Cowl in the starring role and Walter Hampden is playing "Cyrano" once more up-town at his Sixty-second Street Theatre. Margaret Anglin does valiant work in making a drama of tragic married life, "Security" convincing and next week Ethel Barry-more will come to her theatre...