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...Wong, Detective (Monogram). First of a new series of detective melodramas in which the hero can be distinguished from other Oriental sleuths now functioning in cinema by the facts that he: 1) sometimes admits being puzzled, and 2) is played by Boris Karloff with reconditioned eyebrows...
...Invisible Menace (Warner Bros.) involves Boris Karloff and a job lot of studio doughboys in a murder mystery in a U. S. arsenal. Unfortunately for the film, erstwhile Bogeyman Karloff is not the menace; fortunately, he is not invisible either...
...were handed at the door. Loud were the cheers when President Montgomery, dog-tired but icy-cool, announced the settlement. Since formal contracts had yet to be signed, and other producers, notably Warner Brothers, had yet to be brought to terms, a strike vote was taken. Bandy-legged Boris Karloff hustled around with a ballot box which he somehow managed to make suggest an infernal machine. The vote was for a strike against any producer who refused to sign a Guild contract. But no one expected that to happen...
...strong Guild, to which virtually all film actors and actresses belong. Last week's strike faced the Guild with its first big test of Labor solidarity. President Montgomery swiftly summoned his executive board, including First Vice President Cagney, Second Vice President Joan Crawford and Assistant Secretary Boris Karloff, who decided to postpone decision on a sympathetic strike until a mass meeting could be held, meantime left the question of passing through picket lines to individual decision. At the mass meeting, some 4,000 solemn-faced cinemactors voted to wait another week before deciding whether to exert their social consciousness...
Nearly blind and dirt-poor, Inventor Dave Mallory (Karloff) devises a burglar alarm worked by electric eyes. He goes to sell it to Steve Ranger (Samuel Hinds), prosperous president of the Ranger System of burglar alarms, which uses wires. In his youth Dave Mallory invented that system too, but Ranger stole it. This time Ranger again succeeds in tricking Mallory, who stamps out snarling: "What I create I can destroy." With, a pocket radio set which will void the old Ranger alarm system, he sets about bringing Ranger to terms...