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...larkish script concerns a descendant of Victor Frankenstein-a level and kindly sort who is forever being ridiculed for his forebear's madness. An edict in an old will summons young Frankenstein to middle Europe, and he travels to Transylvania by train. ("Pardon me, boy," he inquires, "is this the Transylvania Station?"). He is greeted by Igor (Marty Feldman), a hunchbacked servant with a movable hump and askew eyes, and conducted to mist-shrouded Castle Frankenstein. Soon he stumbles on Victor's secret experimental notes, bound in handsome leather and stamped HOW I DID IT. "What a fruitcake...
Brassai was born Gyula Halasz in 1900 in Brasso, a village in Hungarian Transylvania. He arrived in Paris in 1924 after art studies in Budapest and Berlin, determined to make his fortune as a painter. Not until the age of thirty did he hold a camera. His interest in photography grew quickly, however, as he discovered that with a camera he could capture and portray the restless energy and labyrinthine density of Paris. Finally he could fix forever the flickering images he saw in the subterranean night world of cafes and bars that so fascinated him. He became a photographer...
...short there is an awful stink in Denmark, and Shakespearean scholars take heed. Little Transylvania College in Lexington, Ky. avoided the temptation of using Vampires and instead went with the prosaic Pioneers. And their color? Harvard Crimson...
DRACULA, adapted by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston. An amended version of a 1920's play based on the pioneering study of sexual practices in Transylvania, this production "attempts to capture the original Victorian setting of the Bram Stoker nove. A thriller!" Opens tonight at 8, at the Loeb. Also tomorrow and Saturday at 12 midnight, and this Sunday and next Wednesday through Saturday...
...critic: "Working people can't see where he's doing anything for the state by going on television and quoting the Bible.") The Senator spends his evenings spreading the wisdom of the Bible and the U.S. Constitution. He addressed some 3,000 bipartisan picnickers at the Transylvania County Trout Festival. "It's great to escape from the confusion of Washington," he said, "where some people in high places don't look where they are going and some don't go where they are looking...