Word: hunchback
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Phantom of the Opera- Universal made a brave attempt to duplicate the success of The Hunchback of Notre Dame with another picture of Lon Chaney and Paris. They built the imposing facade of the Paris Opera House and constructed on various sets a series of ingenious interiors and dungeons. They took their story from the novel of Gaston Leroux and depended on horror chiefly for their entertainment. Though Mr. Chaney wears a more grotesque make-up than ever, the film play seems only pretty good...
...than the full-length comedy that is not funny. This one attempts to show how a vast influx of suitors to his lady's hand will cure a youth of flirting with other ladies. There is a good deal of cracking crockery and three characters dressed like the Hunchback of Notre Dame...
Three characters dressed like the Hunchback of Notre Dame...
...Government railway official, he studied in the Universities of Breslau and Berlin and the Zurich Polytechnic, specializing in mathematics, astronomy, physics, chemistry and electrical engineering. In 1889 a young American schoolmate persuaded him to come with him to America in the steerage. Steinmetz has been a life-long hunchback, and this, with a temporary illness, defective sight, no money, little English, almost kept him out of the U. S. But the Ellis Island officials finally admitted him on the pleas of his friend. He got a job as a draftsman from Rudolf Eickemeyer, an electrical inventor and manufacturer of electric...
...plots of the two plays, although based on the same theme, are treated in very different ways. "The Violins of Cremona" concerns a contest among the violin makers of that city for the hand of Giannina, daughter of the old violin master, Taddeo Ferrari. Filippo, the hunchback who wins the prize, shows his heroism by nobly renouncing his victory to avoid forcing his love upon Giannina...