Word: rage
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Keith Memorial is holding over Danielle Darrieux--"Dare-you" is even better than "Sea Moan"--in her American debut, "The Rage of Paris." The picture is strongly recommended for its comedy, its subtlety, and that "je ne sais quoi" that these French girls seem to have...
...leaves. He mistakes the mirror for a window and is quite some shaken up by the minor crackup which ensues. Then, having been aroused, he changes instantly from a disturbance into a menace. He runs out his stinger to full length and charges the bed in a blind rage. The Vagabond retreats under the covers; he is in no mood to fight. Overhead he hears the motor drone round and round. This little thimbleful of winged poison is not fooling; he doesn't seem to care who he attacks. And there'd certainly be the devil...
Cooperation with the government is indeed of fundamental importance, though the vicissitudes of politics should have absolutely no control over the plan of study. The middle course necessarily will be more difficult to follow while criticism will rage continually on all sides. But such problems the Littauer School will have to face with farsightedness and efficiency, if it expects to travel far on the road to better government...
...modern theatre needs more imagination and photography, the Irish playwright told his audience. "The present rage for photographic realism is passing and new interpretive productions about small-town America will replace it," he said...
Most prominent victim of the Soviet ban was Dmitri Shostakovich, Soviet composer-laureate, whose tricky, sensational opera Lady Macbeth of Mzensk, introduced to the U. S. in 1935 (TIME, Feb. 11, 1935), had become the rage of Manhattan's intellectuals. Lady Macbeth of Mzensk was withdrawn from Soviet theatres.* Composer Shostakovich's subsequent ballet, The Limpid Stream, was also withdrawn after a panning by Moscow critics, and his Fourth Symphony was suppressed without a performance. For two years Shostakovich was in the doghouse...