Word: raines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lights turn down and a waiter begins to mop the floor. The Vagabond gets up, puts on his hat and coat, and goes out. A cold rain is falling on Mt. Auburn Street...
...Greek Civil War's land front was drawn last week along the River Struma in Eastern Macedonia, famed for non-Greek wars in 42 B. C. and 1917 A. D. Day after day General Kondylis announced, "We have crushed the rebels." Day after day, rain, snow and sleet froze the two armies in their tracks in the shadow of the mountains of Boz. Both sides fought best with rumors: that Venizelos had been wounded by an airplane bomb; that he had fled to Egypt; that the Averoff had been sunk; that the rest of the fleet had gone over...
...across the health, in the rain and darkness and screaming wind, struggle the figures of two men. the wind whips and twitches at their cloaks, and the men, bending into it, move with the slowness of despair. Hear them talk as they labour through the darkness with the, subtle echo of madness in their voices, the younger one babbling pointlessly and the old one muttering courses to himself. He curses his daughter and his dismal fate, his weak age and his cracking brains and the fool beside him. Lightening picks pot their faces at odd intervals. Rain glisters the brightly...
...knows who was making love to her in her boudoir fails to keep the audience alert, this is also an advantage: it makes the more welcome those interruptions in which Chevalier, as gay and ingratiating as usual, goes into his songs. Good bets for radio include: "Rhythm of the Rain," "I Was Lucky," "Singing a Happy Song...
...never forgotten Miss Eagels' performance is Tallulah Bankhead. Nor has that wilful, luxuriant actress, daughter of the Democratic House floor leader and niece of a Senator, forgotten that William Somerset Maugham, from whose short story Rain was taken, vetoed her for the part of Sadie Thompson 13 years ago. "Here," said she last fortnight in Philadelphia, where her revival of Rain opened, "here is where I get even with Willie Maugham." Last week Manhattan critics had a chance to see if "Willie" Maugham had indeed erred in preferring Eagels to Bankhead for the Thompson part...