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Howerth finally conquered the monster he had created, and diabolic old Nicholas Holtz was at last cornered by a kitten. But long before this ingenious horror story lays out its final cadaver, many a germ-haunted reader will be thinking seriously of gargling.
When frail, tired "N. Lenin" (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov) died in 1924, the Bolshevist high command decided upon a strictly non-Christian apotheosis. A conference of scientists was called to find means of preserving the body. Biochemist Boris Ilyich Zbarsky and Anatomist Vladimir Petrovich Vorobev offered to try, worked four months...
The Bride of Frankenstein (Universal). When Carl Laemmle Jr. resurrected the cadaver of an old story by Mary Shelley and sent it shuffling out with necrotic vivacity to become the box-office smash of 1932, he cannily left the door open for a sequel. Audiences went away from Frankenstein wondering...
At the entrance to Havana Harbor stands a grey 300-year-old fortress called Morro Castle. On the sandy beach at Asbury Park, N. J. last week lay the smoking, fire-gutted, heat-wracked cadaver of a liner named after the fortress. Between Morro Castle and Asbury Park the Morro...
Unseen by Museumgoers, too, was Otto Dix's great oil of War. This mighty work, compared by some to the war paintings of the late Vassili Vassilievich Vereshchagin, was originally hung in a Cologne museum. When Adolf Hitler came into power indignant Nazis spirited it away, whither no man will...