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Water Polo. First riot of the Xth Olympiad occurred after the first match in the water polo tournament, when Germany had beaten Brazil, 7 to 3. Angered by the decisions of the referee, huge Bela Komjadi of Hungary, two of the Brazilians crawled out of the pool and attacked him. Their teammates helped them. The Germans helped Referee Komjadi. Dr. Leo Donath of Hungary, secretary of the International Swimming Federation, tried to stop the fight. Police arrived and whacked him as well as the battling contestants. Bruised and bitter, Dr. Donath left the arena. Said Referee Komjadi: "The Brazilians have...
...zombies'' (animated dead men). The picture fervently believes in them. Dazed Madge Bellamy has come to Haiti to marry slack-jawed John Harron. Robert Frazer. her secret admirer, invites the two young people to his house to be married. To prevent the marriage he goes to a zombie tycoon. Bela Lugosi. who looks like a comic imbecile, can make his jawbones rigid and show-the whites of his eyes. These abilities qualify him to make strong men cower and women swoon. Bela's zombie factory is going full-blast. Corpses carry baskets, grind the mill, do the upstairs work. Bela...
...Bela Lugosi, son of Banker Baron Lugosi. was born in Lugos, Hungary, 49 years ago. He stands 6 ft. i in., has bulging blue eyes, was a famed actor in Budapest for ten years before the War. A sympathizer of Count Karolyi during the Revolution, he fled Hungary when the Royalists returned to power. In 1925 in Manhattan he learned the lines of a Spanish Apache in The Red Poppy, without knowing enough English to know what he was saying...
...wound he suffered scorched hands, was in & out of the hospital for two years. The hot steel cauterized the wound, so there was no infection. Now he works for the same company as a watchman. There are no bad effects, except scars and 70% impairment of his left ear. BELA SMITH Chicago...
...there is no sleeping of nights in the Rue Morgue. Our scene is at the midway of the Paris Fair of 1845. We enter the tend of Dr. Mirakle (a cognomen which rhymes with "cackle"), and we are face to face with none other than Mr. Bela Lugosi, of "Dracula" memory. The doctor pretends to hold converse with his gorilla, Erik, meanwhile affrighting this pre-Darwinian air with sly allusions to Erik's kinship with his human audience. In this audience, flushed with fairday excitement, are a medical student, Pierre, and his fiancee (Miss Sydney Fox, as well as another...