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...RAIN-A jade is called a jade together with other interestingly unprintable synonyms. Jeanne Eagels is the recipient of the epithets; her surroundings are the South Seas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: Oct. 22, 1923 | 10/22/1923 | See Source »

...RAIN-A play focusing its spotlight on the divergent evils of sex repression and sex delinquency. The locale is in the South Seas; the star, Jeanne Eagels. CHILDREN OF THE MOON-An eerie drama of the singular type ot insanity, moon madness. Also a philippic against the over-possessive mother. Brilliant performances by Henrietta Crosman, Beatrice Terry, Florence Johns. SUN UP-Wherein a pipe-smoking virago of the Carolina mountains perceives that patriotism and motherhood overshadow feud hatred. SEVENTH HEAVEN - From the sewer life of Paris to a garret honeymoon. Helen Menken, the War, and a long black whip provide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: Sep. 17, 1923 | 9/17/1923 | See Source »

...RAIN-A heavy tropical rain revives primal impulses in a missionary visiting the South Seas, and Jeanne Eagels triumphs as the gorgeous local guttersnipe who proves too much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: Apr. 28, 1923 | 4/28/1923 | See Source »

...Jane Cowl and Rollo Peters. MERTON OF THE MOVIES - The pathos of hokum. Glenn Hunter in Harry Leon Wilson's adroit satire on the eighth art, adapted for the stage by Marc Connolly and George S. Kaufman. The movie industry amusingly " shown up " from supers to Will Hays. RAIN-A brilliant tract against militant Christianity in the South Seas. Jeanne Eagels as the attractive, hard-boiled demimondaine. U. S. Marines, real rain, and the hot, moist breath of the tropics. SEVENTH HEAVEN-A blacksnake whip and an off-stage rendering of La Marseillaise are the emotional assistants to Helen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema Notes, Apr. 21, 1923 | 4/21/1923 | See Source »

...RAIN-A scathing exposure of militant Christianity in the South beas, in which Jeanne Eagels gives the most convincing portrait of a hard-boiled lady of the pavement since Pauline Lord's Anna Christie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: Apr. 14, 1923 | 4/14/1923 | See Source »

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