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...outclassed by MGM, Universal was last week planning to produce Dickens' unfinished Mystery of Edwin Drood, with an ending supplied by some writer under Universal contract. Charles Dickens' face appeared in Universal's list of "Box Office Authors,' along with those of Edith Wharton (Strange Wives) and Edgar Allan Poe (The Raven). Frankenstein's monster wil again appear for Universal in The Bride of Frankenstein. Universal distributors last week were told that "the mere thought of the monster seeking a bride makes £ showman's fingers fairly itch." A classic with catholic tastes, Carl Laemmle Jr. Universal's birdlike little...
Unusual sales: Mrs. McCormick's diamond necklace and breastplate-$15,000; 24 leaves from the Gutenberg Bible- $5,100; a first edition of Gray's Elegy- $3,500; a second edition of Edgar Allan Poe's Poems-$3,400; a complete set of Declaration of Independence signers- $18,989; an Ispahan palace carpet-$13,000 a glazed terra cotta altarpiece from the workshop of Delia Robbia-$7,600; a two-handled Queen Anne silver cup and cover - $1,550; a 16th Century Tournai tapestry...
...majority. Nor is Mr. Brooks without proof. What have Longfellow, with his untried sentiments, Bryant with his manufactured moralities, Emerson with his solitary self reliance got to do with the heat and the sweat of life? They are as a barrel organ beside the still, sad music of humanity. Poe and Hawthorne, the two greatest artists who ever lived in America were driven by the materialism of the actual world about them into neurotic dream universes of their own. Not until boisterous Whitman shouldered across the country shouting his belief in man did literature bear any relation to actuality...
...Black Cat (Universal), "suggested" by Edgar Allan Poe's famed story of a murderer's retribution, takes place in a sleek modernistic house built by a demented Austrian (Boris Karloff) on the remains of a World War fortress. A bus accident one stormy night sends into this evil abode a U. S. detective story writer, his bride, and a jittery psychiatrist (Bela Lugosi) who suspects that years ago Karloff stole his wife and daughter. Lugosi's suspicions are confirmed when Karloff shows him his waxy-looking spouse among a collection of prettily embalmed women in the cellar...
...give even a logical order to the plot, and the result is an unconvincing succession of almost unrelated incidents designed to strike terror to the hearts of men. Even the "black cat" has nothing to do with the general action, but is an extraneous importation from Edgar Allan Poe, used only to give the piece a title...