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...converted his tough sergeant to Shakespeare and occasionally awed him, when he gave what Fry considered unreasonable orders, with a geyser of Falstaffian curses. After war's end, his Phoenix ran for 64 performances in London's West End. Wrote one critic: "Mr. Fry could make a ghoul laugh ... He gets more cheerfulness out of coffins than most people would from the abolition of bread rationing...
Murder, He Says (Paramount) roughly-very roughly indeed-combines the most easily laughable aspects of Tobacco Road, Arsenic & Old Lace, and the ghoul-infested mansions of .Charles Addams' New Yorker cartoons. It tells of one difficult evening in the life of a Trotter Poll question-asker (Fred MacMurray) who is investigating refrigeration among rubes and the mysterious disappearance of a fellow-Trotter. Startled when a luminous dog tears through the night woods, he runs afoul of the local Jukes family, whose name is Fleagle. While he twitches around among cattle skulls in the uninviting Fleagle living room, and snags...
...Lace" is a chiller-thriller where women scream faint; the wear and tear on one's constitution all occurs around you, laughing apparatus, and if you faint it's because you can't take the belly-agitation. Wliat Joseph Kesserling has written from a God-sent (or Perhaps Ghoul-sent) inspiration and how a perfect cast put it across are things we can't tell you and you'll just have to see it yourself. All we know is that a couple of half-cracked but very nice old maids serve a new drink (two jiggers of elderberry wine...
...Karson splashed the Rialto's lobby with Frankenstein, Zombis, King Kong, a skeleton dangling from a scaffold, a ghoul sucking a lollipop. On his signature alp (about a foot high), by way of contrast, he put Laurel & Hardy. All are done with skilled caricature, are no screwier than the career of the young fellow who painted them. Son of a former Russian court painter, he came to the U. S. when he was four. At twelve he joined a Chicago little theatre as assistant to its art director...
...place fit for the kind of language which the Senator from North Dakota puts into the record about a dead man, a great man, a good man. and a man who, when alive, had the courage to meet his enemies face to face. . . . This committee . . . comes back like a ghoul, a historical ghoul, to desecrate the sacred resting place of the honored dead...