Word: rainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German-born Cinemactress Luise Rainer (The Good Earth, The Great Ziegfeld) became a U. S. citizen. When she returned from Europe recently, she realized how much her new citizenship meant to her, wanted to do something for her adopted country. What she could do best was act. Though she had never appeared on a U. S. stage, she had acted abroad under Max Reinhardt and others...
...Washington, Patriot Rainer quickly took charge. She brought her own director, German-born Erwin Piscator ("The Belasco of Berlin"), from Manhattan...
This week, before an opening-night audience glittering with Cabinet members, Ambassadors, Senators, Washington Society folk, Actress Rainer made her U. S. stage debut. Her role was the fattest and most formidable, for a woman, in the modern repertory-one which had taxed Dame Sybil Thorndike, Winifred Lenihan, Katharine Cornell. It overtaxed Actress Rainer. Frail and flowerlike, her straight dark hair falling about her face, she was the most appealing of all Saint Joans, and the feeblest...
...dreamy moments when the Maid listens to her Voices, in the pathetic moments when she becomes terrified of the stake, in the radiant moments when she returns from beyond the grave to find she has become a legend and a saint, Luise Rainer was all innocent girlhood. But she could not spring to life as the other Joan -the fierce and fiery spirit, the obdurate deliverer of her people. Her voice rose, her eyes flashed, her little fists clenched to no avail: the effect was stagy and elocutionary...