Word: hunchbacks
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...play is an exceedingly sunny charade about a hunchback who did others a great deal of good and finally straightened himself up. The technique is complicated by the fact that the reading of the play takes place within the play. The reader's voice dies, the lights go out and all at once you find actors striding about developing the tale that he has started...
Coach Knute Rockne, Merlin of football, shuffled his big squad like a pack of cards, sent in quarterback, fullback, halfback?eveyone, in fact, but the hunchback of Notre Dame. Even wizards cannot have a great team every year, and against an Army eleven that looked very much like a great team, his strategy could accomplish little. Score: Army 27; Notre Dame...
...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...