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Oriental self-sacrifice played to the tune of splitting shells and roaring torpedoes, is the essence of "Thunder in the East", a picture based on Claude Farere's "The Battle" and set in the Russo-Japanese War. Merle Oberon achieves a slightly more Levantine slant to her eyebrows than Charles Boyer, but both of them succeed eminently in depicting the grim subservience to authority husband for one and country for the other that is the essence of this film. Their performances in this production, we are told, gave them their introduction to Hollywood...
...that the smoke, thunder, and hard-feeling caused by the reorganization plans for the Student Council has calmed down and the new constitution is on the way to being adopted, it is possible to make a sane estimate of the position which the Council should hold in Harvard College...
...salute of 41 guns began in adjoining St. James's Park as the Garter King of Arms. Sir Gerald Woods Wollaston, unrolled a great parchment and began to read, his words drowned from time to time by the crash and thunder of the guns. Full text: "We. therefore, the Lords spiritual and temporal of this realm, being here assisted with these of His late Majesty's Privy Council, with numbers of other principal gentlemen of quality, with the Lord Mayor. Aldermen and citizens of London, do now hereby, with one voice and consent of tongue and heart, publish...
...other men heard the roar of the twin Cyclone engines much nearer than usual, spied the airliner streaking past only 100 ft. above the trees. Suddenly, just after it passed from sight, the smooth drone of the engines ceased in a mighty crash like two claps of thunder. Mounting a horse Farmer Jones galloped to Goodwin, gave the alarm...
...Madame DeFarge, the fanatical wife of the wine shop keeper who heads the Jacquerie. She is in the role of an intensely emotional and overbearing personality such as she has played on the legitimate stage for many years under various guises. One of the most interesting scenes is the thunder and lightning clash of Pross and Madame DeFarge in the first knock-down and dragout fight between women we have seen on the screen...