Word: horror
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hawks (Columbia). As a realistic picture of modern commercial aviation, Air Hawks would be hard to take. Fortunately it is nothing more serious than a horror story hoisted aloft and sustained there by familiar mechanisms: a diabolical invention, a lovely cabaret singer used as the dupe of a crew of villains, trap doors, a comedy reporter, murder, young love and a mysterious gang chief photographed from behind, who turns out to be the man you least suspect. Before long the roguish tendencies of the executives of Transcontinental Airways have been stimulated to such a pitch by the refusal of Ralph...
...trenches in the vicinity of Verdun which could well stand being done over, and the cries are growing steadily louder that the kitchen police be prevented from continuing in their present deplorable ignorance of crepes suzette. Even America will come across with less reluctance if it can forget the horror of it. When the Yanks got off the boats at Brest and step into the chromium roadsters there to meet them they will not forget the farseeing designer who started the movement toward a more elegant war. From the Atlantic to Paris the cry will echo: "Dilkusha, we are here...
Less adaptable than other Greeks last week was a parrot in an Athenian cafe, trained to talk in happier times and not one to forget old tricks quickly. Over and over, to everybody's horror, he kept screaming with pride, "Hurray for Venizelos! Death to his enemies!" Once this patter had earned him crackers. Last week it got him a slit throat...
...Clement Scott is even more convinced that the debacle of civilization is imminent; chronicling the various respects in which the appetite of the nation for blood, violence and horror has been assiduously whetted by the papers, the movies and "Esquire," he concludes in "America Tomorrow," that "the upper-class male" is about ready to attend revivals of gladitorial games, and suggests that "the decline of the American Republic" is thus evident...
...cutback from the recital of Mary Shelley herself, who tells it to her husband (Douglas Walton) and Lord Byron (Gavin Gordon), has none of the hangdog air that one expects in sequels. Screenwriters Hurlbut & Balderston and Director James Whale have given it the macabre intensity proper to all good horror pieces, but have substituted a queer kind of mechanistic pathos for the sheer evil that was Frankenstein. Henry VIII had enough wives to make four screen stars. Elsa Lanchester is the latest to gain stellar fame in Hollywood, having had the way paved for her by Binnie Barnes (There...