Word: passional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Roosevelt's oldest friends were deploring the evident, consuming degree of ambition as almost indecent. Such ambition is the mainspring of most political candidacies. Certainly no man without it could have become the third Democratic President since the Civil War. Translated from ambition to realization, the "indecent" passion becomes heroic...
...Waxie" Lenz?he got his nickname from his childhood passion for modeling in beeswax?was born in Wisconsin in 1872 of German immigrant parents. He was apprenticed to a watchmaker at 15, became a jewelry engraver shortly after, went to New York, then to Paris to study, returned, worked for years as a commercial artist and calendar designer. All this time he continued his passion for minuscule modeling. He liked dainty things. He modeled tiny little figures (generally with the aid of a reading glass) and studied chemistry and physics to try to discover again how the jewelers...
...possibility of seeing Joan Crawford in a South Sea setting, as the "painted" woman in a tropical "cloud-burst of passion," is enough to bring the average moviegoer hustling to the theatre. The picture "Rain" will take care of his emotions,--faculties be damned. But when there hovers in the back-ground of this super-picture a touching drama and a powerful idea, written down by Somerset Maugham for his play of the same name, the intellectual man, the "well-read" man of the movies, will find it worth his while to see this screen version of a famous play...
...fair to fill Hollywood unconsciously with excellent South Sea scenarios is hard to say. Whatever has been spoiled in this production is that which has been added to the stage show, not taken away. The result is a sincere impressive play, full, but not blown up with sentiment and passion, and interrupted constantly by manifestations of the mechanical ingenuity of the producers. These Hollywood moguls obviously feel that it would reflect no glory on them to let Joan Crawford dominate a scene prepared by some British author-- they must do something to show that Hollywood's money is speaking...
...bishop, the vanity of a mayor, the power of a governor, and the morals of certain other reformers one could mention (but bygones are bygones), is convincingly performed. It is comforting to see that when Joan Crawford and Walter Huston are ordered to enact a "cloudburst of passion," they not only do what they are told, but do a good bit of real acting besides...