Word: stoker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Inquisitor Seabury put Builder Fred F. French on the stand. Mr. French, Brooklyn-born, was once a Princeton student, then successively a cow hand, stoker, timekeeper when the Hippodrome Theatre was erected. He is responsible for the Tudor City residential de-velopment on Manhattan's East Side. When he wanted to erect a Fifth Avenue office building of dimensions which needed an "interpretation" from the Board of Standards & Appeals in 1926, Builder French was guided to the Olvany firm...
...After we docked at Leningrad," confessed a penitent stoker from the freighter Asta, "there was a big meeting. All us German sailors in town came. A Russian got up and explained a lot of things. So we all voted to strike...
Since the Witch of Endor, rare are the artists who have raised a proper ghost. Bram Stoker raised one (Dracula]; Algernon Blackwood one (The Wendigo); Walter de la Mare, a few (The Return, On the Edge, TIME, Feb. 23): M. R. James several. Ghost-story addicts will welcome this collection of his four spooky books (Ghost Stories of An Antiquary, Afore Ghost Stories, A Thin Ghost and Others, A Warning to the Curious...
...Browning, who had charge of the best Lon Chaney pictures, has a talent for creating macabre atmosphere by the use of "interiors." He is a director who never, if he can help it, photographs a scene out of doors and then only at night or in a fog. Bram Stoker's famous novel about a vampire who survives hundreds of years after his death by drinking human blood and who is killed at last by a professor who drives a stake through his heart as he lies in his coffin provides ideal material for Browning. He has done...
MARIO AND THE MAGICIAN-Thoma Mann-Knopf ($1.50). If Thomas Mann ever turned his hand to ghost stories, Bram Stoker's Dracula would soon have a rival. Mario and the Magician is not a ghost story, but it should bring up duck-bumps on many a reader's neck...