Word: passionate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Humor and passion do not go together. The revolutionary passion in Russia, cooling, is beginning to allow such fermentation as The Embezzlers. In an oblique manner Comrade Kataev makes fun of Soviet officialdom, hints that a hot time in the old town may still be had, and at government expense. But chiefly he reassures us that the Russian has not lost his old talent of being able to laugh at himself. The Embezzlers, neither Communist nor anti-Communist propaganda, is funny, and true to more than Russian life...
...long poem by Phelps Putnam, The Daughters of the Sun, too long to quote, too good to quote from. Of the newcomers, William Rollins Jr.'s short novel, The Obelisk, is a painfully accurate account of adolescence's nightmares. Erskine Caldwell's Midsummer Passion is a Chekhovian incident of yokel bawdiness and embarrassment, e. e. cummings, noted licentiate of verse, has some fun with prose and prose ideas. Paul Green contributes a full-length play, Tread the Green Grass. There are eleven short stories (so called for convenience); 44 poems, and an essay by Critic Yvor Winters...
...Gave hospital aid to a circus camel (playing in a Passion Play) which had pneumonia...
German Novelist Leonhard Frank adapted this play from his novel of the same name. Despite the subtle services of Alice Brady, making her Guild debut, and of Otto Kruger and Frank Conroy, the weird passion of Karl and Anna remains fabulous, as insubstantial as the fictions of Graustark...
STREET SCENE-poetry and passion in Manhattan's purlieus...