Word: maniacs
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Miss Luce claimed last night that a "wild maniac" had called her up and demanded $5000 "or you won't appear on opening night." The actress, who opens Wednesday night in Shaw's. "The Millionairess," said she received the call Thursnight night and was too frightened to attend rehearsal Friday...
...homicidal maniac, the technical Hollywood name for someone who kills people, Cagney is pleasantly unconvincing. As a story of criminals and what makes them tick, "White Heat" is more so. But for classical cigarette-in-the-corner-of-the-mouth action, the movie is the best in a long, long time...
World Citizen Garry Davis, 26, was getting the kind of personal attention from Moscow that is usually reserved especially for bigwigs. "American debaucher and maniac," squawked Pravda, "a prophet of the World Government idea, exported from the U.S. to Europe, along with powdered eggs and gangster novels...
Scotland Yard was hunting an unnamed "vampire maniac" who had drunk the blood of six victims and then destroyed their bodies. (U.S. papers, which reported Haigh had confessed the killings, said he had sucked his victims' blood "through lemonade straws...
...Payne), a writer, hopes that the great Matt Saxon (Robert Montgomery) will produce his play about Moliere. Saxon is ready and eager, but the process is not entirely simple. Saxon is a man of considerable charm, vitality and at least surface ability; but he is also something of a maniac. His mania is to charm, dominate and, if possible, destroy every person who falls within his spell. The little improvements he insists on disembowel Eric's play, and Eric himself is so helpless a victim of the charm that Mrs. Busch (nicely played by Susan Hayward) leaves...