With Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Julie Bishop. American honeymooners in Hungary become trapped in the home of a Satan. A 1934 FIRE AT SEA SPARKS CONTROVERSY SEVENTY YEARS LATER In 2003 my mother died at the age of 100. While close-mouthed and proper to the extreme most of her life. Through volunteer-created community projects, the Young Leadership Council (YLC) recruits and retains young professionals to New Orleans to create a positive impact. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. With Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Peter Lorre, Frank Vosper. A man and his wife receive a clue to an imminent assassination attempt, only to. Title Screen : Film Genre(s), Title, Year, (Country), Length, Director, Description : L'Atalante (1934, Fr.), 89 minutes, D: Jean Vigo. My first video about my 'idol', Jared Leto (singer, songwriter, musician, actor, director, producer, photographer, artist), Maybe 'my biggest inspiration. New Jersey Maritime Museum – Morro Castle. The following was written by Gretchen Coyle, Beach Haven resident and docent of the Museum of NJ Maritime History. BRYAN, Garnet Maria 1934 Garnet Maria Bryan, 2 . Chester Bryan of Richardson died in a local hospital from burns sustained when she. In the spring of 1934, a young man who wanted to be a writer hitchhiked to Florida to meet his idol, Ernest Hemingway. Arnold Samuelson was an adventurous 22-year-old. Overview of Twenty Million Sweethearts, 1934, directed by Ray Enright, with Pat O'Brien, Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers, at Turner Classic Movies. A 1. 93. 4 FIRE AT SEA SPARKS. While close- mouthed and proper to the extreme most of her life, she told me in her last decade that she saw the . Could this be true? Nothing could have been more terrifying than being a passenger or crew member aboard the . Just hours after Captain Robert Willmott had been found dead in his stateroom of strange circumstances. De. Witt Van Zile. Adding to the disaster was the fact that the ship was facing into the wind . Starting in the First Class Writing Room, the midship flames were fanned by the wind and a temporary ship. Taking advantage of such an opportunity was the Ward Line, a mail and cargo line whose main route was back and forth to Cuba. Costing $5 million, the . For four years the ship made its way back and forth from Cuba usually half to completely full of passengers. While it was routinely maintained, and glossed over, the . The crew changed hands routinely. Most were paid less that the government Civilian Conservation Corps workers, surly and inefficient. With a government contract to deliver mail and other goods between the U. S. Agitators, Communists, discontents, and maybe even murderers, were part of the general mix. George Alagna was a radio operator who vocally expressed opposition over how most of the crew was treated to all who would listen. His fellow radio operator George Rogers turned out to be even more mysterious and sinister. Captain Willmott had major problems with his officers as well as the crew. With all of the above turmoil in mind, hindsight shows the . According to William Warms, Chief Officer who took over the ship after the undetermined death of the captain, Captain Willmott told him the day of the fire, . Dodging both the northeaster and a hurricane coming up the coast, the officers of the . Passengers and crew became on edge. At 3: 0. 0am a fire erupted in a closet off from the Writing Room. Almost simultaneously another erupted elsewhere. Flames quickly engulfed the ship. A small number of the crew tried to put out the fire, while at the same time telling two young ladies who wanted to sound the alarm to be quiet lest they wake other passengers up. Both officers and crew were paralyzed with fear and indecision, the result being a fire that quickly engulfed the ship. No order was given to stop or turn the . Consequently, the blaze burned everything back through the stern in quick order. Although only a few fire hydrants were used, water pressure became extremely low. In flames the ship proceeded out of control up the coast a few miles off shore. Panic ensued among passengers and crew. Many of the crew looked out for themselves as they dropped lifeboats and filled them. They did not direct terrified passengers who had received no life vest and lifeboat drills at sea. Although the ship had more than enough lifeboats . Some of the lifeboats were literally painted in place and could not be lowered. More afraid of being burned to death than being in the water, many people jumped into the Atlantic Ocean. No one was told that cork life preservers needed to be held upon descent or they could cause injury such as broken necks or unconsciousness. No doubt this added to the fatalities. The ornate wooden interior on the ship just added to an out of control raging fire. Cleaning fluid exploded, as did the Lyle Gun stored over the Writing Room, designed to attach its line to another ship to start evacuation. A SOS was oddly enough first heard by radio station WCS in Tuckerton, NJ. After a questionable sequence of events and time enacted by the radio operators, the word was spread. Ships and local boats from the coastal Asbury Park area headed to the scene, rescuing a number of people in the water. Others had died from their fall, being crushed by the ship. Investigations took place after the ship had beached itself off the oceanfront Convention Hall at the summer resort of Asbury Park. Lawyers, passengers, crew, the FBI under the direction of J. Edgar Hoover and his brother, and the Ward Line all conducted inquiries into the tragedy. Testimony was conflicted and self- serving in cases. The . Summer businesses extended their season well into the fall, making for the best season they had in years. Souvenirs were sold; hotels, boarding houses and restaurants did a brisk business. Brian Hicks puts together now unclassified testimony and numerous information on radio operator George Rogers, who at first emerged as the hero of the . He was a pyromaniac who, through his extraordinary knowledge of explosives and radio devices, managed to take down a large liner. While hindsight draws many conclusions, one young seventeen year old on board as the third purser spent years telling groups of people that not all the crew was negligent. Some helped passengers and their fellow crew members. Tom Torresson testified, . Tom Torresson died in 2. The . It was then towed to Baltimore, taken apart, and sold as scrap. Neither the circumstances of Captain Robert Willmott? Or maybe she meant she saw the hull of the ? I will never know. SIDEBAR: For more information on the . Twenty Million Sweethearts (1. Overview. A promoter neglects his wife to make a singer a radio star. Talent scout Rush Blake has gone through his advance from Consolidated Broadcasting Co. After he is fired, he goes to a restaurant looking for friends who might loan him train fare out of town, and discovers singing waiter Buddy Clayton, who draws a large female audience. Sure that he will be equally successful on the radio, Rush convinces Buddy to sell his car and come to New York with him. There Rush wangles an audition for Buddy, but he sings the same barroom song that was so popular at the restaurant and fails the audition. Afterward, Peggy Cornell, the . Buddy sings her a song that children's radio performer Pete has just written, and to everyone's surprise, his voice is beautiful. When Sharpe, the head of the station, refuses to give Buddy another audition, Peggy pretends to faint on her own show, . Brokman, the wife of the sponsor, loves his voice, as does everyone who hears it. Soon Buddy is the new star of . When news of Buddy's engagement to Peggy makes the papers, Sharpe is afraid that women will lose interest in Buddy if they know he is married. By lying to both Buddy and Peggy, Rush manages to break up the engagement, but Brokman now thinks that Buddy is involved with a married woman, thus compromising the purity of his soap. Contrite, Rush finds him a job on Long Island, luring Peggy, Sharpe and the Brokmans to hear him. When Peggy and Buddy sing a duet, it is clear that no one minds if they get married after all.
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