Word: draculae
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...Pittsburgh, Mrs. Alexandria Grodecki applied for a divorce. Grounds: her husband Anthony frightened her by "Dracula-like" behavior, putting lighted candles in his ears, shouting, "I eat blood...
...commission in the Royal Flying Corps, and was sent to Egypt. A bad crash left him with a troublesome leg, which has cost him a total of three years in hospital. With no job, money or prospects he married an English girl (niece of Bram Stoker, author of Dracula), brought her to the U. S. After eight unsuccessful months trying to sell Mack trucks, Farson and his bride went off to live in a shack on Vancouver Island, stayed there two years. Then he went back to Mack Truck Co., did so well he was made Chicago sales manager...
...Raven (Universal). Bela ("Dracula") Lugosi and Boris ("Frankenstein") Karloff, foremost U. S. cinemonsters, first played together in The Black Cat, "suggested" by Edgar Allan Poe's story (TIME, May 28, 1934). The Raven "suggested" by that frail, pathetic poet's best-known poem, suffers chiefly from the obligation its producers felt to give it more bloodcurdling situations and paraphernalia than The Black Cat. Consequently the picture is stuffed with horrors to the point of absurdity. One imposing piece of equipment is a bedroom which descends to the basement like an elevator when its owner wishes to harass...
...Salvador Dali's (TIME, Nov. 26), are amused, bewildered or alarmed. But surrealism has its uses. In I Am Your Brother Author Marlowe has made it work for him, shows through this feverish medium a story distorted into real horror. One reason why such gruesome tales as Dracula are still traditional is because the old-fashioned paraphernalia have not been improved on. Author Marlowe shows a new way to make flesh creep...
...Lloyd's insured famed Playwright John Lloyd Balderston (Berkeley Square, Dracula for $10 per $1,000, he must have impressed some individual underwriter that he was an excellent risk. U. S. rates are based on the combined experiences of many underwriters. Thus, U. S. rates for student pilots are almost uniformly near $35; for experienced non-commercial pilots. $16 to $20. Those rates take into consideration all possible combinations of risks. Lloyd's rates, on the other hand, vary with the judgment of the particular underwriter who takes the case, but are rarely...