Word: passion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born To Anton Lang Jr., German professor at Georgetown University, son of the onetime Christus of the Oberammergau Passion Play; and Klara Mayr Lang, onetime Magdalene of the Passion Play: twin daughters, each weighing 6 lb.; in Washington...
...second feature on the program, "Hold 'Em Yale," is a hilarious comedy of the lighter sort, combining humorous dialogue with a series of extraordinary situations. Patricia Ellis is featured as the pampered young heiress who is afflicted with an ungovernable passion for men in uniform, much to the sorrow of her father, who has to foot the expensive bills for her numerous divorces. Cesar Romero plays the part of the dashing but unfaithful object of Miss Ellis's affections. The humor pervading the whole picture reaches its climax in the scene depicting the Harvard-Yale football game, won by Yale...
...choristers have long sung like professionals. Cincinnati's biennial festival took five days last week. Soloists were there from Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera. Seven hundred schoolchildren sang at the Saturday matinee. Trained adults were well equal to Mendelssohn's Elijah, to Bach's St. Matthew Passion. Conductor Eugene Goossens had prepared three premieres especially for the occasion: Atalanta in Calydon, skillfully designed by Granville Bantock; La Belle Dame sans Merci, a rambling peroration by Cyril Scott; a sonorous Stabat Mater by Cincinnati's own Martin G. Dumler...
This week's Wednesday review day program at the University is worthy of marked attention, offering two of the year's outstanding films, "The Barretts of Wimpole Street" and Claude Rains' excellent "Crime Without Passion." The merits of both these pictures have received widespread acclaim with almost universal approval from the critical sections of the press...
...than give it to Portugal (its northern neighbor) or France, the Afrikanders would prefer Germany. France's policy of raising, training, and arming huge levies of black troops they feel is a definite threat to white supremacy in Africa. It is a mistake which Nazi Germany, with its passion for Aryanism, would not make...