Word: frankenstein
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Actress Elsa Lanchester, playing a nightclub date at Manhattan's Blue Angel, shuddered to recall some of her movie roles. "I was a loathsome bearded lady in The Big Top, a resurrected corpse in The Bride of Frankenstein, and I'll play the wicked stepmother in Cinderella," said Elsa in a frightened voice. "I've played so many repulsive characters that I sometimes have to stop and check to make sure that I have arms and legs and am quite normally human...
...Lamont the structural entity that weighs on many. Too much like a huge machine, with the soft breathing of its air conditioning, the almost imperceptible but constant humming of its lights, its often subterranean atmosphere, the building seems to some students a monstrous trap or an educational processor--the Frankenstein's monster of a mechanistic age. In spite of all the glass, these dissenters feel sealed into the building. Even a member of the staff said it: "If only we could open a window...
Last week, fed up with his own "Frankenstein monster," Ronald Searle confirmed the closing of his imaginary school. In his new book, Souls in Torment, his girls are still playing their old tricks-but they are doing so for the last time. They squash their last teacher under a roller, stab their last classmate in gym ("Some little girl didn't hear me say 'unarmed combat,' " chides a teacher), and, having come into possession of some top secret information, they blow up their school with the latest atom bomb. From now on, St. Trinian's will...
...Stadium that gave the first push to big-time college football--a game that de-emphasis-minded officials now regard as something of a Frankenstein creation--was opened for the first time on November...
...good monster picture, as any moviemaker knows, is worth its weight in ghouls. Bent on scaring the money as well as the daylights out of the customers, Hollywood is currently preparing the biggest assortment of horror pictures since the Frankenstein days...