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...Masque of the Red Death dusts off a trifling Poe classic and adapts it to fit the collected smirks of Vincent Price. Poe's original described a masked ball at which the vulgar Prince Prospero and all his company succumb when Death appears disguised as a plague victim. In the elegant, elongated movie version, Prospero is a Satanist who scourges the entire 12th century countryside. He tortures peasants, tries to corrupt a village maid, and lets his pet dwarf barbecue a guest. Fortunately, by the time Death gets to the party, most of the nicer people have fled...
Comedy of Terrors is a lushly produced little parody of Hollywood scream fare, hopefully labeled a "horroromp." Vincent Price and the late Peter Lorre play a team of New England undertakers. When business is slack, the two wheel off in the hearse to raise the death toll, chew the scenery, and feed each other jokes. But the jokes lack nourishment. Foppishly appraising a coffin, Price sneers: "Nobody in their right mind would be caught dead in that thing." True enough. So Basil Rathbone gets buried alive, while Boris Karloff, in a minor role, eyes his former gloom-mates...
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...giant of the industry and its current pacemaker is Chicago's Continental Casualty Co., whose high-risk premiums have tripled to $21 million in five years. Continental got into the business in 1954 by hiring away a Lloyd's expert named Vincent S. McKerrow, who now heads Continental's special-risks department, which has branches in 16 cities. Under McKerrow, Continental has insured a railroad against any harm that might be caused by two Siberian tigers being shipped to a St. Paul zoo, also insured members of a private New Orleans club against excessive bodily harm caused...
GUGGENHEIM-Fifth Ave. at 89th. The work of Vincent Van Gogh: his Sunflowers and Cypresses, Harvest, Yellow House and Potato Eaters are among 120 oils, watercolors and drawings on loan from his nephew's unique collection. Through June...