Word: poe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...square and all by the same artist, was a breathtaking medley of scenes and events, ranging from the crucifixion of Christ to the execution of Nathan Hale, from an attack of delirium tremens to the Ride of John Gilpin, from Little Britches left out in the snow to Poet Poe addressing the Raven. Sentimental though most of the subjects were, the craftsmanship in each picture was remarkably good. And not a single one had ever seen the light of print or public exhibition...
Unlike France's François Eugene Vidocq, who packed his memoirs with accounts of his love affairs and daring escapes and thus inspired Conan Doyle, Poe, Hugo, Balzac and Gaboriau, Superintendent Cornish seldom refers to his personal career and accomplishments, writes of plodding, methodical, routine work unlikely to fire any man of letters. Always conscious of the elaborate organization needed to collect the countless items of trivia used in building up a case, Cornish gives himself and other super-sleuths no more credit than plain constables or voluntary informants, writes as much of murders that were never solved...
...Raven (Universal). Bela ("Dracula") Lugosi and Boris ("Frankenstein") Karloff, foremost U. S. cinemonsters, first played together in The Black Cat, "suggested" by Edgar Allan Poe's story (TIME, May 28, 1934). The Raven "suggested" by that frail, pathetic poet's best-known poem, suffers chiefly from the obligation its producers felt to give it more bloodcurdling situations and paraphernalia than The Black Cat. Consequently the picture is stuffed with horrors to the point of absurdity. One imposing piece of equipment is a bedroom which descends to the basement like an elevator when its owner wishes to harass...
Lugosi is a distinguished, crazy surgeon who broods over Edgar Allan Poe, keeps a stuffed raven in his study, is fascinated by death and torture. When his vanity is appealed to, he operates on a young girl (Irene Ware) to save her life, falls in love with her. Meanwhile he is approached by a criminal (Karloff) who wants his features altered to escape detection. Because Karloff, anxious to mend his ways, believes that "ugly people do ugly things," he begs to be made better looking. Instead, Lugosi makes him uglier still, enslaves him by promising to do a better...
President Bernard, most popular of the Gimbel clan, is friend to Gene Tunney and lesser celebrities, spends leisure hours entertaining richly on his Port Chester, N. Y. estate. Cousin Richard, no socialite, expresses himself by pride in his four children and by collecting the works of Edgar Allan Poe whose cottage on Brandywine Street he endowed and refurnished. Between Cousin Bernard and Cousin Richard bad feeling has long existed. After Richard Gimbel had put the Philadelphia store into the black, his salary was cut and he was removed from control-an episode he never allows Cousin Bernard to forget since...