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...Hollywood Masterminds create a great character and then ruthlessly destroy him. From the most recent reports, it was conservatively estimated that more time was given to making this amorously inclined monster than has been used on Lon Chaney, Boris Karloff and Frederic March for face-lifting...
...Mummy (Universal). Boris Karloff, like the late Lon Chancy whose niche in the cinema he is trying hard to inherit, keeps his pressagent busy estimating the amount of time he expends in putting on makeup. For The Mummy, Karloff's preparations took eight hours. He dampened his face, covered it with strips of cotton, applied collodion and spirit gum, pinned his ears back, covered his head with clay, painted himself with 22 kinds of greasepaint, then wound himself up like a top in bandages which had been rotted in acid and roasted. It is a pity that these energetic...
...develops that the reanimated mummy is enamored of the archeologist's fiancee (Zita Johann) who, in a previous incarnation, was an Egyptian priestess. To consummate his romance, the mummy tries to kill the archeologist's fiancee, but goes about it too deliberately to be successful. Typical shot: Karloff and Johann seated beside a tubful of hot water in the steam of which they discern scenes from their life...
...story of The Old Dark House, as anyone can guess from the title, starts with three motorists ringing a musty doorbell in the hope of finding shelter from a thunderstorm. The door is opened by a butler (Boris Karloff) whose hair is unbrushed but whose face looks as though he had combed it with a threshing machine. In the old dark house, the motorists (Raymond Massey, Gloria Stuart, Melvyn Douglas) are insulted by their hosts, a family of Femms who are living in seclusion to avoid being hanged for murder. While the Femms and their guests are dining on cold...
...Goldwyn). Critics who feel that the cinema should be an independent medium are discouraged because an overwhelming majority of the best talkies are reproductions of successful plays or novels. Tonight or Never is a case in point. The cast-with the exception of Alison Skipworth, Gloria Swanson and Boris Karloff, Frankenstein's monster, who herein plays a waiter-is the one which made the play a success in Manhattan when it was produced by the late David Belasco. The cinema, directed by Mervyn Leroy, differs from Mr. Belasco's production mainly in the fact that Gloria Swanson performs...