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...POUPE'ES DE PARIS. The adult puppet show features doll versions of Pearl Bailey and Frank Sinatra-but Frankenstein is the most convincing. It doesn't pay to sit too close because he comes clomp, clomping right down off the stage...
Nothing is less appetizing than last year's ghoulash. Dracula and Frankenstein were fun the first time-and were still fun in later films, when they met each other, their own progeny, and mates worse than death. But in the '40s and '50s, the customers got bored with movies that cried werewolf, got fascinated with atomic-age monsters like The Blob, The Thing, The Great Green Og, and a colossal purple caterpillar filled with green radioactive goo. In the '60s, the fashion in fright has become eclectic: mad scientists, mole people, teen-aged werewolves and creatures...
Morison compared modern technology to a Frankenstein which threatens to destroy its creator. He felt, however, that "man is not powerless against the process of advancing technology." Education, he said, offers the key to controlling the monster. "Of all the institutions in our society, the university will exert the determining influence on our culture...
...market survey it constantly to detect each flicker of interest. Popeye is currently out; so are Doctors Kildare and Ben Casey, model trains (they are considered old-fashioned), and tuna fish. Among the current ins: Mr. Magoo, electric toothbrushes, army toys, English bikes, kosher foods, pizza pies, and Frankenstein monsters...
...also way back when there wasn't any television or Marvin Glass. Glass, 48, is the nation's foremost toy designer and consultant, the Frankenstein...