Word: spined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Barry, with the best balanced cast in town. Clever dialogue and shrewd observations of manners, morals, and institutions in the younger generation. THE LAST WARNING - The season's best shilling shocker at about twelve shillings a seat. But worth it. Mechanical tricks and theatrical ingenuity employed with spine-chilling effect. THE LAUGHING LADY - Ethel Barrymore is back in the drawing-room. As the somewhat declasse Lady Marjorie she is epigrammatically but insistently prudish about her love affair with the brilliant married lawyer who flayed her in the divorce court. P o L LY PREFERRED - Genevieve Tobin appears...
...Grand Guignol (Paris) program includes a horror play The Crucified, and a broad farce The New Below, both of which have scored enormous successes. The Grand Guignol Theatre is known all over the world as the most spine-chilling chamber of theatrical horrors in existence. Every known variety of human agency is depicted by the Guignol players with blood-curdling realism...
...SHIPS -Highly unusual film of the high-tide of the American whaling industry. When one irritated sea-monster starts crunching a boat and its occupants like a peppermint stick, directly in front of the camera, it is difficult to keep the shivers out of your spine. A distinct achievement...
Charles Leonard Bouton '96, Professor of Mathematics at the University since 1898, died Monday at his home, 9 Avon St. His death came as the result of an illness lasting several months, due to nervous affection of the spine...
...fall to be influenced by the stupendous suggestion it contains; and whether it is merely a cold draught blowing on the audience from behind, or the weird effect of the play itself, there are some scenes during which a shivery, hair-raising sensation is unaccountably at work upon his spine...