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Frankenstein (Universal). Mary Wollstonecraft (Mrs. Percy Bysshe Shelley) wrote this story, supposedly to win a bet from her husband and Lord Byron. It is a grisly conceit about a young doctor who, experimenting with synthetic animation, produces a live, dangerous and somewhat human monster. Universal, encouraged by the success of Dracula to produce a series of horrific weirds, in which Poe's Murders in the Rue Morgue will be next, entrusted the direction of Frankenstein to James Whale. He did it in the Grand Guignol manner, with as many queer sounds, dark corners, false faces and cellar stairs...
...Elizabeth Robins Pennell was a Phila delphia girl, born in 1855. Educated in a Paris convent and at Eden Hall (Torresdale, Pa.), she married Joseph Pennell in her 30th year. She is the author of a life of Mary Wollstonecraft and (with her hus band) of a life of Painter Whistler...
There is a galloping chapter on "Sporting Books." "Skinner Street News" touches on the Godwin-Wollstonecraft-Shelley group. Dickensians will relish "The Greatest Little Book in the World." But a particular interest is unnecessary for lively enjoyment of any of these papers; the wide knowledge they reflect is so unassuming, so humanized, so colored by the author's manifold personality...