Word: monsters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Monsters are an old thing but they are still around. Just this past week Boston's Centre Theatre premiered one of the lastest monster movies, The Bride of the Monster...
...scientist is Dr. Erich Varnoff. Exiled by a "foreign power," Varnoff decides to rule the world. As he puts it, "I will perfect my own race of people." Varnoff sets up a monster-making establishment in an old dilapidated mansion, the old Willows Place, which is hidden deep in an old secluded swamp. "This swamp," one of the characters later reveals, "is a monument to death...
Operating from these quarters, Varnoff sends his best monster to fetch prospects. The monster's name is Lobo and he is of Tibetan origin. But the trouble comes when Lobo falls in love with an Occidental girl, a hard-hitting reporteress named Miss Laughton. Lobo, who is really a gentle soul, cannot stand to see Miss Laughton undergo the invariably fatal process of reracination. Lobo turns on his master. The results are catastrophic...
Though his name is Varnoff and he wears the traditional clothes, Varnoff is a new kind of monster-maker. He makes his supermen with "the atom elements." His story also seems influenced by the development of Psychotherapy ("Here in this forsaken jungle hell I have come to prove myself alright."), though it is not known whether there was an analyst for this swamp...
...Poor Man's Friend." Earl could not succeed himself under the Louisiana state law, and in 1952 the anti-Long reformers came back. In 1955, Earl readied himself for his own comeback by having all his teeth taken out and by preparing monster newspaper advertisements in which he misquoted the Bible...