Word: hunchback
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...book of mine called This Way, Miss, I retold a story about Millionaire Otto Kahn and the hunchback wit, Marshall P. Walsh. The banker and the hunchback were walking along Fifth Avenue, and the banker, pointing to a Christian place of worship, said to the hunchback: "This is my church." The hunchback replied: "I thought you were a Jew." The banker said: "I was a Jew." The hunchback looked up at him, walked a few steps, stopped and looked up at the banker again and said: "You know, Mr. Kahn-I was a hunchback...
Silents Please (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Lon Chaney Sr. stars in the 1923 film, The Hunchback of Notre Dame...
...whole generation of operagoers saw in Warren's burly figure (5 ft. 11 in., 200 lbs.) and big, "burnished voice the natural embodiment of opera's great villains-the grandly tormented Macbeth, the insinuatingly oily hunchback Rigoletto, the ravening Count di Luna of Trovatore. But he was also wonderfully effective in roles that called for massive dignity and restraint-Germont in Traviata, the title role in Simon Boccanegra. What Warren lacked in natural acting ability he more than made up with his remarkable and splendidly controlled voice; it had impressive size, fine texture and immense range. Warren even...
Next in line for possible rehabilitation: Hugo's Hunchback of Notre Dame and Dumas' The Three Musketeers...
...sorely afflicted and afflicted with sores, he stays hunched over on his knees for half an hour. And here he touches greatness; to find a just comparison, one must go all the way back to Lon Chaney Sr.'s title-role performance in the 1922 film version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame...