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...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...
Died. William Bolitho (Ryall), 39, South African English-Dutchman, one-time fisticuffer, ship's stoker, reporter. Wartime British Army lieutenant (buried alive in a Somme dugout and consequently rendered unconscious for weeks, unhealthy for life), Paris correspondent for the Manchester Guardian, author (Murder for Profit, Leviathan, Twelve Against the Gods, Italy under Mussolini, Cancer of Empire), dramatist (Overture, 1920), recently a vivid, penetrating triweekly colyumist for the New York World: of peritonitis after an appendectomy; at Avignon, France...
...Long-Lugger. The Baltimore & Ohio has 21 engines named after Presidents. They haul the B. & O.'s Capitol Limited and National Limited and other crack trains and last week the President Pierce, with a mechanical stoker feeding Pittsburgh seam coal into the fire box, made an experimental trip over the 786 miles between Chicago and Washington, † Normally four locomotives, changing at three stations, are necessary on the Chicago-Washington...
...eyes. Is she smuggling diamonds? Yes, she's smuggling diamonds. Three or four years ago a film photographed, acted, plotted as effectively as this would have been called, inaccurately, a masterpiece. Audiences who saw it last week thought it was a fair program picture. Best shot: the little stoker (Clyde Cook) playing the accordion...