Word: screaming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Strauss's taut, frenetic music deeply moved the audience last week. People stayed to cheer long after it had ended. Under Conductor Artur Bodanzky the basses whirred an awful suspense while Elektra waited for Klytemnestra's death scream. The horns exclaimed wildly while Elektra danced herself to death. Few critics bothered to carp at the stuffy stage production. They were grateful to the hard-pressed Metropolitan for mounting even so tardily a great opera which is unlikely to prove a great box-office attraction...
...amiable son (Emlyn Williams), her frightened niece (Katherine Wilson); two plug-ugly footmen, one romantic, one comic and one effective police officer. Less vigilant spectators will be in anxious seats until Actor Williams begins to smile late in Act III. The cast of this loosely pasted thriller snoop, scream, poke their hands through false panels in professional manner. Actor Williams is particularly shrewd with his part. So is Actress Carlisle, who still commands the forensic gift with which she seconded the vice-presidential nomination of Calvin Coolidge...
...which is a drop of potent magic. After the wedding ceremony, Bela Lugosi cuts a woman's figure out of a wax candle, then melts it in a flame. Madge crumples too, is buried. Frazer and Bela Lugosi disinter and install her in a craggy castle where vultures scream and Bela Lugosi is served by a group of stalking zombies, enemies whom he has devitalized by black magic, interred, disinterred and enslaved. With expressions of frozen agony, like figures in a waxworks they shuffle woodenly about on Lugosi's horrid errands. Meanwhile John Harron has found a priest, Joseph Cawthorn...
Meanwhile distemper broke out among the widow's cats. Four died, leaving 36 tomcats to snarl, spit, scream and wail from the Dornsife's domicile at night...
Lounging about his villa at Celigny on Lake Geneva, wavy-haired Composer Ernest Schelling heard a woman scream. On the adjoining villa, occupied by young Robert Thompson Pell, press attaché of the U. S. delegation at the Disarmament Conference, servants ran about, wringing their hands, gesticulating toward a boat about 100 yd. offshore to which a woman was clinging while her screams became fainter. Composer Schelling raced into the water, swam to the boat, found Mrs. Pell in a bathing suit, unconscious, hanging head-down in the water. Her right leg was impaled on a sharp Swiss oarlock. Composer...