Word: rainer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Admitted to U. S. citizenship in a Hollywood courtroom, German-born Cinemactress Luise Rainer jumped up & down, clapped her hands, cut a couple of delighted capers. Then she risked a reprimand from the U. S. Flag Association by wrapping herself in a U. S. flag, having her picture taken. To a meeting of 200 teachers, sardonic Author-Professor John Erskine declared that the only subject taught correctly in the schools today is athletics...
...Great Waltz (Fernand Gravet, Luise Rainer; TIME...
...affectionate portrait of an era when the principal effect of Revolution was that it inspired a young musician to write a march; and when the most important effect of barricades in the Vienna streets was to cause the same young composer (Fernand Gravet) to leave his wife (Luise Rainer) at home in order to enjoy an early morning drive with a full-throated opera singer (Miliza Korjus...
...sailor and lumberjack. Aksel Sandemose is a 39-year-old Danish novelist who has been acclaimed and anathematized in much the same terms as James Joyce, Celine, Rainer Maria Rilke, Franz Kafka. Like them, he follows a realism that is epic and allegorical rather than photographic. Two years ago Sandemose was introduced to U. S. readers with a powerful, puzzling story called A Fugitive Crosses His Tracks. Acknowledging Sandemose's originality, critics called him less original than Joyce, less obscure than Kafka and Rilke, less cynical than Celine...
Loew's State and Orpeheum is still showing "Toy Wife," with Louise Rainer, Melvyn Douglas and Robert Young. Essentially modern actors, they have difficulty in this revival of the Victorian Frou Frou," and the result is not happy...