Word: passion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pierre Louys, filmed in Director von Sternberg's best darkly sardonic style, The Devil Is a Woman is a slow, rococo anecdote about the vicious sex-life of a Spanish cafe dancer (Dietrich) and the middle-aged army officer (Lionel Atwill) whose career is shattered by his morbid passion for her. Infinitely more adult in its approach to human values than such a picture as The Scoundrel (see above), this effort by one of Hollywood's most famed directors is correspondingly more childish in its manner. After winding through an interminable succession of overdecorated scenes, in which flashbacks...
Perhaps the most expert minicam operator is Dr. Paul Wolff of Frankfort, Germany, who bought one of the first Leica cameras, has since paid for his passion for traveling by selling his tourist snapshots Twenty-eight Wolff prints were on view. Easily the most striking photograph was a head-on shot of a sneering horse (see ait) taken in 1/60th of a second on panchromatic film by F. Fahnestock of New York...
...great U. S. artist even today, was represented by six canvases in the Whitney show. Best of the lot was his picture of the Biglen brothers, famed oarsmen of the 1870's, pulling their double shell around a mark in a race. Eakins' particular passion was having his models pose in exactly the same attitude from day to day. He used to make them stand against a background marked out with squared lines with colored ribbons attached at the exact point where head, elbow, knee, etc. were supposed to be. Prizefights were his passion. In 1886 he shocked...
Only those who buy or borrow bootleg books got a chance to read the late D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, the most outspoken novel yet written on sexual unhappiness, its cause and cure. Those who read it remember, besides its paeans to physical passion, punctuated by Anglo-Saxon four-letter words and North-country dialect, its Lawrentian plot: how Lady Constance Chatterley, full-blooded young wife to a paralytic peer, sought fulfillment elsewhere and found it with Mellors, her husband's gamekeeper. Author Lawrence, no champion of neat endings, left his lovers looking forward...
Author d'Orliac's thesis: even passion has its postscript. Mellors and Lady Chatterley, after the birth of their child, leave England and settle in the French countryside, where they live for a time in idyllic poverty. Eventually Lady Chatterley's husband agrees to give her a divorce, but Mellors' hell-cat wife will not do likewise. In fact, she pursues him abroad, upbraids and bedevils him until he shoots her. Exit Mellors. Lady Chatterley and her child take refuge with Sylvius, a supersensible Frenchman, half philosopher, half farmer. Lady Chatterley is tired of the passionate...