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Merton Hodge's "The Wind and the Rain" blows in frenzied gusts across the Peabody stage, and leaves one touched by its graceful play of emotions, and gently stirred by its restrained passions. This is not a play to convulse the spectator with vicarious woe, nor to rack his brain with subtle problems of mind and soul. It rather wins his benevolent sympathy for the characters who are ruffled but not torn...
...woman stretched on a rack of suffering . . . enduring the torture of the damned," sobbed Hearstwriter Marguerite Mooers Marshall...
...hours later the two assassins lay riddled with bullets on the floor in a room in San Juan police headquarters. The police story: The two Nationalists, being questioned, suddenly leaped to seize riot guns which were exposed on a rack in an open closet. The police prevented them...
...murder, whose statements, claimed to have been made when they were brutally whipped by deputy sheriffs, were admitted in evidence as confessions. The Chief Justice of the U. S. was not disinterested. With vibrant voice he called attention to the "due-process" clause of the Constitution, declared, "The rack and the torture chamber may not be substituted for the witness stand," set aside the sentences. Having contributed to the dramatic tension by putting human rights first, Chief Justice Hughes took up property rights next. The case: minority preferred stock-holders of Alabama Power Co. who asked that the Supreme Court...
...Uncle Sam is closing in on the Duke with a vengeance. Tenser and tenser becomes the rack on which everybody including the audience is strung, until there comes the inevitable snap. Startling things happen in the denouement, to the staccato tune of rifle and machine-gun fire. And as you leave the theatre, slightly stupefied, you find all sorts of psychological problems of intricate relationships and true identities clamoring for solution. You also find six or sever characters impressed indelibly if somewhat confusedly upon you memory, which is saying a lot for a movie. "The Petrified Forest" is an awesome...