Word: rains
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...nothing in it!" said Graduate Treasurer F. W. Moore' 93 to a CRIMSON reporter at the H. A. A. yesterday with reference to the story in a Boston morning paper to the effect that the Stadium was to be covered with an immense canvas to keep off the rain. "We have had some discussion on the subject, I admit," he continued, "but no such plan has been given serious consideration, much less definitely adopted...
...Lady is a flagrant example of the old-fashioned melodrama which regards the audience as a sponge. Taking this sponge in its powerful, primitive fingers, the play squeezes. Tears drip like rain drops after thunder. But despite the fact that The Lady is shamelessly sensational, acutely obvious, completely out-of-date, its capacity for engrossing entertainment has scarcely been equaled on the stage of the season...
...Stage rain even more realistic than that in Rain...
...staging is distinguished by all the art and artifice of the Belasco brain and workshops. A third act rainstorm renders all the stage rain shed hereabouts as the merest filmy drizzle in comparison. The stars are supported by a large cast in the style to which Belasco stars have been accustomed...
Gabriele d'Annunzio, Italian soldier-poet : "At Gardone, Italy, I stayed in my garden while rain was falling and a terrific wind blowing. When members of my household urged me to take shelter from the elements, I replied: 'I must hear the sound of the waves, the whistle of the wind and the fall of the raindrops. To write one must be next to nature!' Next day found me in bed with a severe attack of tonsilitis. Said the Daily News, New York newspaper: 'What our poets need most is not to get next to nature...