Word: lon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dracula (Universal). Director Tod Browning, who had charge of the best Lon Chaney pictures, has a talent for creating macabre atmosphere by the use of "interiors." He is a director who never, if he can help it, photographs a scene out of doors and then only at night or in a fog. Bram Stoker's famous novel about a vampire who survives hundreds of years after his death by drinking human blood and who is killed at last by a professor who drives a stake through his heart as he lies in his coffin provides ideal material for Browning...
...empty title) to the sixth Earl of Hoddesdon. He had red hair, a just discernible mustache, and a determination to die rather than go to work. Biscuit's old school friend Berry Conway, a mere commoner, had faced the facts and taken a job as secretary to Lon don-living U. S. Tycoon T. Paterson Frisby. Frisby talked in barks, luckily be came incoherent when dyspepsia and human folly reduced him to one of his frequent tantrums. Both Biscuit and Berry, dissatisfied with their lot, felt the need of some change. When lovely Ann Moon. Frisby's niece...
...item in the will of the late Sir Guy Francis William Laking, 26, filed in Lon don, read: "To my Friend Tallulah Bankhead [actress, daughter of Congressman William Brockman Bankhead of Alabama], all my motor-cars...
...Similar to, perhaps identical with, the d'Herelle Phenomenon is the Twort Phenomenon discovered by Frederick William Twort of Lon don. The Twort bacterial secretion kills staphylococci (pus germs...
...Died. Lon Chancy, 47, cinemactor, (The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Phantom of the Opera, The Unholy Three) famed portrayer of the grotesque; after a series of illnesses which included an attack of pneumonia, a throat-operation; of anemia, following three transfusions, at Hollywood...