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Horror films, plots with newspaper or gangster settings have undoubtedly fulfilled the wishes of the movie going public, but they have also fitted in happily with the producers' campaign to cut costs. "Frankenstein", "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," and "Murders in the Rue Morgue," the latter opening at the R.K.O. Keith today, constitute a trio of carefully contrived hair-raisers. A survey of other current titles reveals additional evidence that melodrama and the effects of the spoken word are being capitalized...
Died. Mrs. Rue Winterbotham Carpenter, 53, interior decorator, wife of Businessman-Composer John Alden Carpenter; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Chicago. Mrs. Carpenter, president of the Chicago Arts Club, superintended art work for the rooms of the Double Six Club in Manhattan's new Waldorf-Astoria, for the Elizabeth Arden Building...
...husband and Lord Byron. It is a grisly conceit about a young doctor who, experimenting with synthetic animation, produces a live, dangerous and 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...
Marcel Mouillot was born in Paris in 1889 of petit bourgeois parents. Never having lived near the sea his great ambition was to be a sea captain. He fought through the War, emerged in 1918 seriously gassed. A Mlle Berthe Weill who ran a little gallery on the Rue Lafitte took him up. He had a little success, but made no money. Last year he had a chance to do the thing he had always dreamed of. He shipped on a freighter out of Marseilles for a cruise in the Indian Ocean. Four days out the ship was wrecked...
...Also from a Florida circus came Chimpanzee Joe Martin. Innocent, obedient, clever, Joe Martin performed in Tarzan pictures, was sold back to a circus seven years ago when he became unmanageable, began to annoy other Universal monkeys. He may be repurchased to act in The Murders in the Rue Morgue. Largest mammoth ever used in cinemas was Universal's Charlie, an agreeable and intelligent elephant who helped build Universal City by carrying lumber. Charlie was chloroformed and shot when he went wild and tried to kill his trainer. For East of Borneo it was necessary to hire extra alligators...