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...Byington) there is some touching domestic business (by Miss Byington, Shirley Temple and the accomplished Tom Tully)-memorably a Christmas supper at which everybody sings O Come, All Ye Faithful. There are also moments of franker pain and shock than most films dare to hand an audience without Boris Karloff to reassure them it is all in fun-a scene with a screwily bellicose veteran of World War I (Chill Wills-see cut), a horrible fracas between Zack and a dog, a still grimmer scene in which Zack, alone in his Y.M.C.A. room, all but drowns in a maelstrom...
...misses were routine, the third was most embarrassing to the evening's guest star: "In the book he disappears off a boat, in the movie he is destroyed in a burning mill." The answer that nobody knew: "The monster in Frankenstein." The embarrassed guest : Boris Karloff, who won fame as the movie monster...
Otto Wilson bought a ticket at the Million Dollar Theater, went in. As he watched The Walking Dead, a Boris Karloff horror picture, the thought kept buzzing through his head: "I have killed a woman, and no one here knows about it." When the picture was over he walked into another bar and ordered wine. He watched a woman at the bar. After a while she smiled. Her name was Lillian Johnson...
...Playwright Russel Crouse, Actor Elliott Nugent and others, he bought a Broadway theater (the Hudson)-"so we needn't be subject to certain guys' whims and fancies." Naturally he also bought into the first show which he hopes will be produced there, a fall item for Boris Karloff being written by Lindsay and Crouse...
...morning with dyed hair or altered features. These Lds thought nothing of playing such parts in Arsenic as a pair of motherly old poisoners, a drama critic who loathes the theater, a clank who thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt, a killer who tries to look like Boris Karloff. Old hands at small-fry roles, as grown menaces the kids virtually never missed a cue muffed a line, threw away a laugh nor bungled a shudder. Down front a lot of their coevals were on the edge of their small seats...