Evening star., 1948-06-27
Weather of the Soul
Anna Karenina' Finds Russian Climate
an Explanation of Russians
By Joy Cormody


The rest of the species which dismay
the definition Of from the weather
pictured Anna Karenna."
Few screen productions earnestly sought
feet Many have found their cmaxes
sents high degree OF specification in natural eatasopne Inc
Kanina the simple kind yet it al
potent element in the drama OF the Russians whose lives
are being portrayed
its interest in the Rus
This derives from Iolstoy
who wrote the novel No writer IN history couo more o e
thousands of words about how was on certain
what did to the Russians whose tragedy was not 70 De
somewhere else
Weather Cost q Fortune. ~
Merely going along Karenina must have
approximately onefouh Of the cost OF the English
picture
the picture must be going beyond Toll
stoy as If Mr. Rank Julien Anouh asking:
expect of people who have lived for centuries IN
this? Why should such these look for brighter TO-
when in their congealed souls they know wi" bring
another feet of snow?
This Tooy weather like when he wrote
anna Kaenina and he was speaking as Russian VINO knew 700
weather to deny it, its effects upon the
spirit.
Even the good days picture These lin
which day of harvest in field so big
to the Black Sea- 1t is gigantic scene IN wnch
cpe of exhausted arisocrats whiting the FORE
struggle keep their feet in the distant
background other good day the day of the races On ne
whole seems extraordinarily exceptional tn ony gay M m %
honestly enjoyed for itself alone out
they watching each other and the hoe
implication that they already had TOO ucn
the weather be aware OF this one dramatic day OF
change
Most of the days picture rains Never does
do enough to normal that the spectator in
The Shows Keep Getting Worse.
The snow which the story makes
clear unforgeable going be like from there on
Hollywood did quite an admirable phzzaro some years ago Al ~
Horizon" compares furry avalanche
outside the window of Annas train COM
parment napkins but few OF them are
enough outside The world outside she could
see it, something already 10 feet buried
first Count Vronsky the
destiny 1t is storm that hts It's
circumstance filled with symbolic orebodng
during which they ADMIT theH love-
Russian village which must be the most
bleak place its in the world 1t is in storm
her conscience and her heart but also
becomes haunt her the rest OF her
that of the Father e-ke ngure VINO
comes as wild wrath through the night
Actually tapping the wheels OF the rail-
still intact but that he should nave
been so distorted in surprising.
The Always Deluges.
searngy in Anna karenlna
raining narthly madness them rains
which the earth and its inhabitants IN
catastrophe act of vengeance
rather logically that sharp awaeness OF the
weather matter of contrast to some degree
HOLLYWOOD really pays attention weather when Is not the
nearly always fine pictures Hollywood when calls
gentle background called White Christi
mas" ZEf Il
Otherwise unconscious OF 1t as
factor in life Maine Cape Henry and
places like that
thing could never happen III
Russia that Russia there is almost Moth
that this weather explains virtually everything
Well nearly everything!