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...second carriage passed me I noticed a queer sort of grey object hurtling through the air. Then there was an explosion and a puff of smoke...
...makes the transitions less of a tour de force. The face of the handsome young British sawbones becomes by barely perceptible degrees of trick photography the visage of a sabre-toothed baboon with pig eyes and a tassel of primeval hair. The story?most macabre product of the queer brain of Robert Louis Stevenson, sometimes politely sentimental, sometimes insanely, savagely gloomy? goes much as usual, with Hollywood variations. Mr. Hyde pursues a music hall girl (Miriam Hopkins) and brutally mistreats her while Dr. Jekyll makes intermittent and respectable love to the daughter (Rose Hobart) of a bigwig. Dr. Jekyll promises...
...tales in Nixey's Harlequin range from shrewd fables to realism that is only a little out of date. They are all obviously the work of a man who does not see the world through conventional spectacles. If you are one who finds an original view distressing, "queer," better left unsaid. Author Coppard is not your man. He obtrudes no Message, but he shows an individual face. Some of his stories...
...somewhat human monster. Universal, encouraged by the success of Dracula to produce a series of horrific weirds, in which Poe's Murders in the Rue Morgue will be next, entrusted the direction of Frankenstein to James Whale. He did it in the Grand Guignol manner, with as many queer sounds, dark corners, false faces and cellar stairs as could possibly be inserted...
...crop. Most tobacco growers are tenant farmers. Their whole living for the next year is the cash they get at the auctions. Quiet and softspoken, the farmers at Owensboro listened to the auctioneer's jargon as last week's sale began.* The farmers understood this queer, rapid language perfectly; the quiet was short-lived. Tobacco began to sell at an average of $4.61 a hundred pounds against last year...