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...confine themselves to the humdrum mishaps of prostitutes, millionaires and college footballers, Carl Laemmle Jr's Universal studio specializes darkly in supernatural pasquinades. The hero of The Invisible Man is as nasty a pumpkinhead as Frankenstein's monster or The Mummy. He is a young physician named Griffin, whose love for beauteous Flora Cranley (Gloria Stuart) is not sufficient to prevent him from discovering a drug which not only makes him invisible but turns him simultaneously into a homicidal lunatic...
...first thing Dr. Griffin does when he is out of sight is to wrap his body, which remains solid, in garb as unprepossessing as he can find. Well aware that when he removes the bindings from his face or the trousers from his legs, there will be nothing there, he takes pleasure in frightening the host of a village inn by doing so. Presently he kills a policeman and then, intoxicated by the certainty that he can commit crimes with no possibility of being detected, he wrecks a train, kills another young doctor whom he has forced...
...Middlesex, Theodore C. Osborne of Boston, Massachusetts; Milton, Rogers B. Horgan of Washington, D. C.; Noble & Greenough, Robert A. Little of Bar Harbor, Maine; St. George's, Walter R. Lucas, Jr. of Providence, Rhode Island; St. Mark's, John L. Lyman of Waltham, Massachusetts; St. Paul's, Willard H. Griffin of Manchester, New Hampshire; Thayer, Lee W. Mather of Randolph, Massachusetts...
February 4 Rev. Frederick R. Griffin, First Unitarian Church, Philadelphia...
CHESTER A. GRIFFIN...