Word: gaslighted
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...first real shudders in almost two years. Author Hamilton, who raised audiences' hackles with his Rope's End in 1929, can still summon up goosebumps. No crude spook or corpse melodrama, no bloody bundle of closet horrors, Angel Street, which played in London under the title Gaslight, has the good old English knack of brewing a thriller in a teacup, of making a Victorian parlor more menacing than an opium den, of giving to gaitered footsteps a carpet-slippery stealth. This spooky tale of London's gaslit era creates suspense, not by keeping the audience in ignorance...
Producer Darryl Zanuck's interest in history generally and the U. S. gaslight era particularly is by no means pedantic. Nonetheless, if nothing that happens in This Is My Affair, from Lieutenant Perry's correspondence with McKinley to the scandal which he unearths, can be readily substantiated, the background of everything that happens in the picture has a carefully documented and persuasive authenticity. Far more successful than Robert Taylor's rigidly uninspired performance as the hero are those of Robert McWade, Frank Conroy and Sidney Blackmer respectively as Dewey, McKinley and Roosevelt I. Good shot: Roosevelt polishing...
Barbary Coast (Samuel Goldwyn) is a gaslight and "hoss''-pistol melodrama of San Francisco in the gold-rush days, written by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, directed by Howard Hawks, acted by Edward G. Robinson, Miriam Hopkins and Joel McCrea. That it somehow fails to justify expectations is due largely to the fact that the story, about an underworld tsar who constitutes himself protector of a lady croupier in his gambling house and then shows that his heart is in the right place by giving her up when she falls in love with a mealy-mouthed young prospector...
Under the Gaslight. Since Christopher Morley and his three colleagues discovered, at their stunt theatres in Hoboken, the awkward charms of the dramas of the '60s, there has been a general scramble for these dusty manuscripts. This one is an Augustin Daly play, first produced in 1867, and, to make it just a little quainter, an old theatre in the Bowery has been resuscitated to house...
...with so many inventions the new neon gaslight signs now rapidly appearing in every large city of the world have aroused suspicion-that they gave out ultraviolet rays injurious to the eyes. In Buenos Aires one P. Satanowsky quieted fears by having assistants work in neon light several hours daily for several days. His conclusion, heard in the U. S. last week, was that the light is not injurious, that the glass of the tubes containing the neon gas absorbs all the ultraviolet light...