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Hurricane (Jon Hall, Dorothy Lamour, Mary Astor, Raymond Massey...
...whose gatherings white ties are more in evidence than Windsor bows, made large headlines in 1933 when George Bernard Shaw delivered a saucy socialistic speech under its auspices at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House. Last week the Academy, gathered for its 57th annual meeting at Manhattan's Astor Hotel, heard an equally newsmaking speech, neither saucy nor socialistic, by U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau...
Hurricane (Jon Hall, Dorothy Lamour, Mary Astor, Raymond Massey...
...combination of miniatures, real storm shots, tank shots, stage shots made with wind machines, all blended with bursts of inhuman music as savage as the piping of damnation. During the course of it Terangi proves his worth by getting a rope to the church, rescuing Madame de Laage (Mary Astor), whose husband, Resident Governor Eugene de Laage (Raymond Massey). stood ready to send him back to prison. When the waves subside, one group of survivors, lashed to a tree, is bobbing on the waves. Another has weathered the blow in a beached lifeboat in which, while the hurricane raged...
Censors were troubled, too, over the activities of a procuress (Junie Astor) who conducts her activities from the switchboard of the club. They finally suffered her to remain, after carefully editing the careers of the two girls she ensnares. The Sapphic inferences were noted in the character played by beauteous Else Argall, Author Deval's wife and a newcomer to cinema. Censorship deleted her best scene, which shows her successfully fighting the urge to join the girl of her desire. Considered fit for Manhattan cinemagoers was the shot in which she poisons the procuress-telephone operator. Playwright-Director Deval...