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...Love (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). This adaptation from Les Mains d'Orlac by Maurice Renard is one of the most completely horrible stories of the year. It presents Peter Lorre as a maniac surgeon who can do anything with a scalpel but nothing at all with Yvonne Orlac (Frances Drake), an actress who has no use for him because she loves her pianist husband, Stephen (Colin Clive). When Stephen's hands are mangled in a railroad wreck, Dr. Gogol (Lorre) replaces them with the hands of a murderer who has that day been guillotined. Thereafter the hands of Orlac...
...sinister "nighttime" character, who would not go for a walk on a spring day because "the world burns inside us, not outside us." The father's queerness had taken various forms in his children: Emilie had left home to pleasure, not better herself; Susanne was a quiet religious maniac; Otto wanted to be an artist but had to work for his living...
...Elgin, Ill., Maniac Kenneth Ortt, 20, dodged around the top of a 150-ft. water tower, threatening suicide while a squad of firemen with a life net tried to keep under him. Ortt jumped, missed...
...courtroom parody, she wrote her own scenario, had it approved by her lawyer-husband, Thomas Hart Fisher. Composer Aaron Copland wrote smart, satiric music but attention was more on the stage, set as a grim grey courtroom. A cabaret dancer (Ruth Page), a jealous chorus girl and a maniac are all accused of killing Page's dancing partner (Bentley Stone). While masked jurors look on stupidly, the crime is three times re-enacted as different witnesses saw it. Revolver shots ring out from the orchestra. The jury believes any story. The pompous judge makes no decision, pounds his hammer...
...message at 7 p. m. from a relative of Mrs. Stoll, onetime Ambassador Frederick M. Sackett Jr. Within 24 hr. the D. O. I. laboratories had the $50,000 ransom note, had found fingerprints and identified them, among nearly five million on file, as belonging to a young Nashville maniac named Robinson. Foolish Kidnapper Robinson named his father in Nashville as intermediary and money-passer...