Word: passion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...looks like an understudy for Anton Lang, chief actor of the Oberammergau Passion Players; he hates the country "except as medicine"; loves crowds; is to be seen nearly every afternoon striding spiritedly up Fifth Avenue, Manhattan...
...childhood sweetheart. The sweetheart saves his life in the final bullfight scene, wholly preposterously. All this Miss Dean whips into fresh and agile entertainment. There are not many actresses equipped for such a task. Forbidden Paradise. Pola Negri and Ernst Lubitsch, playing again on the same team that made Passion, are inevitably excellent. They chose a play called The Czarina in which Doris Keane starred not so long ago. The story is an amiable satire on the delights and drawbacks of Royalty. Rod La Rocque plays the captain of the Guard whom the star promotes in rank as he rises...
...filled a gap for him. He was a lonely youth, with few intimates other than his drunken cronies. She stands out significantly among all his later amours?reputable and otherwise. And Stevenson was ever the lover, his hot eager nature never happy unless his emotions were fed with passion...
...long time ago, I read an account in some newspaper to the effect that Anton Lang had henceforth forever declined to play the part of Christ in the Passion Play and that he has forbidden his son to take the part. The reason given was "lost faith...
...made this country, such as Washington, Franklin, Jefferson or Monroe, or the devout and God-fearing Pilgrims who preceded them, should voluntarily sit and watch corpulent Italian, Spanish, French or German aliens and a few Americans, trained in Europe and alienized, enacting, upon the stage, scenes of Latin passion, seductions, betrayals, murders, assassinations, insanity, jealousy, disease and death. The horrible nature of operatic librettos is intensified by poignant, passionate music, acting and singing. The American mind, even in its worst phases, cannot produce a genuine grand opera. It is distinctly a foreign, alien expression, with a far-reaching in fluence...