Word: frankenstein
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just after the National Recovery Act was passed, industrialists rushed to form Company Unions in order to get out of its labor clause, Section 7a. At that time, Administrator Johnson warned them that these unions would eventually get out of hand, and become a "Frankenstein that would eventually override them...
...light of these considerations, it is folly for the United States to attempt to throw pillows of diplomatic intrigue in the path of the Japanese Frankenstein. This does not mean that Nipponese aggression is thereby condoned. But it is far less expensive and far more prudent for the United States to mind its own business and strive to take advantage of the impending Japanese agression in the light of American interests...
...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...
Approved by the Legion of Decency, The Werewolf of London is a shade sillier than The Bride of Frankenstein, more alarming for small children than Mark of the Vampire. Universal last week instructed its theatre-owner clients how to advertise the picture...
...Lord Byron (Gavin Gordon), has none of the hangdog air that one expects in sequels. Screenwriters Hurlbut & Balderston and Director James Whale have given it the macabre intensity proper to all good horror pieces, but have substituted a queer kind of mechanistic pathos for the sheer evil that was Frankenstein. Henry VIII had enough wives to make four screen stars. Elsa Lanchester is the latest to gain stellar fame in Hollywood, having had the way paved for her by Binnie Barnes (There's Always Tomorrow), Merle Oberon (Folies Bergere) and Wendy Barrie (It's a Small World...