Impressed with Margaret Hill's singing ability, Al Levering takes her from the notorious dive in which she is performing and pays for her musical education. Just as she is about to join an opera company, Levering is arrested for embezzlement and Margaret, out of gratitude, promises to marry him when he is released.


There is a moment, roughly two-thirds through Out of the Storm, when the camera forgets to blink: Margaret—now lauded as Margherita di Lago—stands in a pool of limelight, mouth agape, while the orchestra freezes on a suspended dominant. The iris contracts to a trembling halo, and for eight flickering seconds the film ...

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" There is a moment, roughly two-thirds through Out of the Storm, when the camera forgets to blink: Margaret—now lauded as Margherita di Lago—stands in a pool of limelight, mouth agape, while the orchestra freezes on a suspended dominant. The iris contracts to a trembling halo, and for eight flickering seconds the film becomes pure tableau vivant, as if someone had pressed a shellac record of Puccini against nitrate and asked both to burn together. That single arrested chord encapsulates the pict..."
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