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...Thousand Faces (Universal-International) is the glittering trademark that Hollywood gave Lon Chaney in his day. He was also ballyhooed as a "mystery man," and the ballyhoo for once told the truth; when Actor Chaney died in 1930. the film colony mourned an enigma. Reticent and secretive, Chaney, son of two deaf-mutes, shrouded his personality, veiled his past as adroitly as he camouflaged his own features under masterful disguises (he was the Encyclopaedia Britannica's expert on movie makeup). Chaney enjoyed the respect of his own associates in the film industry, but he avoided both publicity and public...
...Lon Chaney? This movie, though taking some drastic liberties with his life, more nearly catches his spirit than any previous try at his biography. The subject was certainly no cinch. The actor liked to assure his rare interviewers: "Between pictures, there is no Lon Chaney.'' In a large sense, that was so. There was no Chaney. but there was a solitary fisherman, a bodkin-eyed amateur movie cameraman, a proficient wigmaker, a talented musician. Hollywood's hungriest reader-and always, the actor testing his disguises. One morning, got up as a Chinese laundryman, Chaney boarded...
Universal, the studio that first found Lon Chaney popping up in practically any male bit role it was casting, has done justice to the once-famed star it detected...
James Cagney plays the role with sensitivity and understanding. As Chaney's two wives. Dorothy Malone and Jane Greer, though plotted in severe black and white, manage to make grey-toned human beings of themselves. Most important, Lon Chaney is presented in all his frail- ties. He was a jealous, generous, obstinate, softhearted man. Seldom in Hollywood's euphemistic tributes to its own has the tribute included so many ugly realities at the expense of glamorous garnish...
...sense of incongruity went with the anger. No sooner had Queen Elizabeth solemnly proclaimed "a case of great emergency" than she went off to the Duke of Norfolk's box at the fashionable race meeting that traditionally winds up Lon don's social season. After cheering Sir Anthony Eden's Palmerstonian boast that the Royal Navy "will take care of" any Egyptian warships on the loose, the House of Commons, like the French Assembly, adjourned for the summer. But the urgency was real. Air Marshal Sir John Slessor, great airman turned topflight military strategist, spoke for many...