Word: raines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...case of rain the meeting will be held in the breech recess of No. 3 piece at Soldiers Field...
...graduated from Harvard in 1879. Of the 51 football games that Harvard and Yale have played, he has seen all but one. But even Banker Ellis had never seen a Harvard-Yale game quite like the one last week. A gusty south wind from Long Island Sound lashed rain into the Yale Bowl by the cloudful. The 50,000 people (who contributed only $2,315 to solicitors for an unemployment fund) kept away from the field till the last minute and then piled into the Bowl wearing oilskins, rubber boots, blankets, with newspapers folded around their necks for scarves...
...down with 10 yd. to go Lassiter tossed the soggy slippery ball to Marling who waded 24 yd. for a touchdown. A few minutes later the game was over, Yale 19, Harvard o, most decisive score since 1915 when Harvard won 41-to-0. Yale men, apparently bewildered by rain, wind, mud and the excitement of seeing their team win its second game this year, rushed down and tore up their own goalposts...
...possibility of seeing Joan Crawford in a South Sea setting, as the "painted" woman in a tropical "cloud-burst of passion," is enough to bring the average moviegoer hustling to the theatre. The picture "Rain" will take care of his emotions,--faculties be damned. But when there hovers in the back-ground of this super-picture a touching drama and a powerful idea, written down by Somerset Maugham for his play of the same name, the intellectual man, the "well-read" man of the movies, will find it worth his while to see this screen version of a famous play...
...producers. These Hollywood moguls obviously feel that it would reflect no glory on them to let Joan Crawford dominate a scene prepared by some British author-- they must do something to show that Hollywood's money is speaking. So they harp on the title of the show, "Rain", and employ it in the manner of a theme song. To think of the amount of worth-while atmosphere created in the play by keeping the 6000 horsepower rain-making machines going at top speed all the time, is essentially, to laugh. It rains so hard during much of the film that...