Word: frighted
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...role on the stage. Basil Rathbone acquits himself fully as creditably as John Barrymore, his cinema predecessor. The only serious bit of miscasting in The Hound of the Baskervilles is in the title role. The proper selection, obviously, would have been a calf-sized Norwegian elkhound; equipped with fright wig and false fangs. Instead, Associate Producer Gene Markey, perhaps in the delightful confusion attendant on his recent marriage to Hedy Lamarr, put his O.K. on a friendly old Great Dane named Chief, who, despite all his yelpings, cannot even make his bark seem worse than his bite...
Last week the periwigged British bar viewed with interest the unprecedented decision reached in the Manchester Assizes in the case of Smith v. Hall & Pickles. For her fright, Mrs. Smith won ?2,500, assessed against Hall & Pickles and Mr. Cunliffe of Droylsden, since both were found equally responsible for the motor crash. Unless the decision is upset on appeal, the future may well see frightened British bystanders by the hundreds seeking nerve balm after every motor bump in Britain...
...frankness, however, that the opening act of the latter is atrocious. Although the make-up department has cleverly turned out a George Jean Nathan, an Alexander Woolcott, and an Orson Welles, these gentlemen's attempts at acting are deplorable, even when allowances are made for first-night stage-fright. Only the skill of John W. Sever '40, as Maxwell Anderson alias Mr. Puff, and the charm of Dorothe Larson of the Bishop Lec Dramatic School induce the audience to return to their seats after the intermission...
...Manhattan gallery of Dali-sponsor Julien Levy, an exhibition of "surrealistic" paintings by Grade Allen, adept professional dope, included nitwit daubs entitled: Man with Mike Fright Moons over Manicurist, Dogs Gather on Street Corner to Watch Man-Fight, Gravity Gets Body Scissors on Virtue as Night Falls Upside Down...
...Morganna Bale, wife of a middleaged, good-natured Continental general. In the last year of the Revolution, when the story begins, Morganna acquires two worshipful protégés, a pretty farm girl and a handsome British deserter. When she falls in love with the deserter, he takes fright at her reckless passion, tries to escape. Promptly retrieved, he resists no further. Two months later, the war ended, he is so hypnotized that he agrees to murder the returning general. By a rather far-fetched accident, the general technically commits suicide, but under circumstances which, even if believed, would...