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...felt that they owed some kind of minimum to their employers and their conscience as craftsmen. Supporting players are given to lines like "Yon storm'll be upon us main soon."*Others merely curtsy, mew incoherently or tug their forelocks. For what it is worth-a middling curdler-the whole thing was much better done in 1937 by Basil Rathbone and Ann Harding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Jan. 5, 1948 | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

...world's important operatic centres, might have been chastened by this experience. But he was not. Before two years were out, he and his librettist, the late Hugo von Hofmannsthal, had turned out another grisly melodrama, a Freudian version of the Greek tragedy Elektra. In this second blood-curdler, the hag-ridden heroine danced gleefully while the dying screeches of her father's murderers floated from behind the backdrop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bad Boy | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

Chandu (Beechnut). A blood curdler. Chandu sends explanations of his magic tricks to children who write...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Poor | 3/13/1933 | See Source »

...GUEST?A blood-curdler (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Table: Oct. 20, 1930 | 10/20/1930 | See Source »

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