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...Teenage Frankenstein (American-International). There's this mad scientist, see. He's a descendant of Baron Frankenstein, the mad scientist who invented Boris Karioff, and naturally he wants to keep up the family tradition. So one day he ups to another scientist and says, sneaky-like: "I plan to assemble a human being." His friend is horrified. "But, Professor Frankenstein, you can't-" Oh yes, he can, and what's more, he plans to make a teen-age monster. After all, I Was a Teenage Werewolf was a howling success at the box office last year...
...scientists go down to Professor Frankenstein's secret underground laboratory, where there is an enormous refrigerator in which he keeps a big pile of arms, legs, brains and other spare parts collected from passing teenagers. In less time than it takes an ordinary doctor to take a temperature, they have built themselves a real live teen-age monster (Gary Conway) and fed the leftovers to a crocodile that is kept around as a sort of garbage-disposal unit. No sooner does the monster come out of the anesthetic than Professor Frankenstein, in deadly earnest, commands him: "Speak...
...just a viewing of the universe as an "infinite series of identical and isolated fruit salads." He gave his students a thorough grounding in literature, art and history, brought to his campus such teachers as Composer Darius Milhaud, Author (The Friendly Persuasion) Jessamyn West and Music Critic Alfred Frankenstein. Since the career of the average woman, White argued, is to raise a family, why not prepare her for it while at the same time giving her the intellectual background to play her role creatively...
...Having performed a new work once." wrote the San Francisco Chronicle's able music critic, Alfred Frankenstein, "conductors disown it for good. Hence arises an infuriating paradox: the best way to kill a modern piece is to preside over its premiere...
...composers who get commissions for new works but not repeat performances, partly inspired the Ford Foundation last week to appropriate $315,000 for the commissioning, playing and repeat performances of new symphonic works, and the performances of ten contemporary U.S. operas (by the New York City Opera). Critic Frankenstein found the provision for symphonic performances insufficient. Briskly turning himself into a one-man foundation, he called on conductors to repeat works they had introduced during the last five years, offered a $100 prize for the conductor who repeated the most...