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Questioned concerning the film in which she stars with Jack Holt, the stately beauty merely smiled. "The storm is rather nauseating, especially the third time. Though it is not a real typhoon. And Jack is such a dear. He has dignity, real dignity. But for verve, spirit, give me Adolph any time. Wasn't he just wonderful? No. I didn't really ever get into the bath. Yes it was furnished by the Crane company--and Adolph says such funny things--"But I have never had the role I want...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Florence Vidor Descants on "Sea-Horses"--Screen Lulu Ululates at Past Parts--Lusts After Cinderella Role | 3/27/1926 | See Source »

...Horses. Jack Holt and Florence Vidor are fairly entertainingly occupied in a marine adventure in which a typhoon is prominently concerned. He is a sea captain and she the wife of an Englishman who once might have been described...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Mar. 8, 1926 | 3/8/1926 | See Source »

...typhoon brought a cloudburst into the thickly populated district around Tokyo with the following results: Twelve lives lost, 20,000 houses flooded (including 1,000 completely submerged), bridges swept away, telegraph wires broken between Tokyo and Osaka, 1,000 acres of rice fields inundated. Damage was estimated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Notes, Aug. 31, 1925 | 8/31/1925 | See Source »

...with piercing cries of joy. Savaron, cursing brilliantly, burrowed down through the loams of illusion to the last dark rootlet of which words can tell. Psychologically, the book is a faultless exposition of the destructive approach to super-manhood. It would be restless reading for maiden aunts, a dangerous typhoon for souls without some windward anchor of faith or stupidity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bedlam Blasted | 12/29/1924 | See Source »

...conquering by air for the first time in history of the hitherto uncharted air route over the Pacific Ocean by the perilous traversing of typhoon-swept areas of Japan and China; the pushing on through days of sweltering heat and tropical rains of Indo-China, Burma and India; and, after the comparative safety of Europe, the unflinching answering of the formidable challenge of the fog-encompassed and ice-locked stretches of the North Atlantic-these are facts that are dipped in an indelible dye, the nucleus of a story that will fire the imagination of old and young alike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Magellans | 10/6/1924 | See Source »

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