Word: raines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lady of affairs, is unable to become a great singer until she falls in love-specifically, when Mr. Melvyn Douglas, in very gentlemanly fashion, bites her on the neck. It is the second production this season by David Belasco, who is ailing, and he has supplied characteristic touches: real rain, real flowers, a not particularly real play. Two years ago Miss Gahagan went abroad to study music. In Tonight or Never she sings snatches of Tosca very satisfactorily...
Weeks of constant rain, constant seepings from the flooded river Saone had turned the interior of Fourviere to a quaking pudding. Earl)' in the week engineers reported danger of landslides to city authorities. At 1:15 in the morning people living on the flank of Fourviere heard a noise ''like the crack of doom" felt the world slip out beneath them...
...disappointed U. S. astronomers went to bed early one evening last week. They had planned to sit up all night to watch the expected leonid meteor display, but fogs and rain in most localities made observing impossible. Watchers at New Orleans had several hours of clear sky, reported a fine display...
...drop the great Yale backs, and Quarterback Trix Bennett who played without a rest, who scored the touchdown that put Princeton ahead at the half, who failed by two inches only to get over the first down that would have meant another score and victory in the fog and rain, in the last minute of play, on Yale's five-yard line. The touchdown the Yale substitutes had made on a long pass across the goal line in the third period was still good. Yale 10, Princeton...
...write a show about a minister and a bad girl. One can generally count on a second act curtain in which the minister, having visibly weakened in his fight against the devil and his pomps during Act I, abandons himself to the delights of the flesh. Examples: Romance, Rain. The scene of Pagan Lady is laid in Florida, in a little town to which a convention of preachers has been attracted. One of the divines is Franchot Tone, a capable young man recently admitted to the Theatre Guild. Mr. Tone meets Lenore Ulric, a hijacker's property, and they...