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Apr. 20, 1935
UNIVERSAL WEEKLY
15
For lack of an antidote, Henry Hull becomes a werewolf in his own laboratory.
Lester Matthews and Henry Hull in a ferocious battle in one of the scenes from “ Werewolf of London .”
CRATCH a myth and find a scientific truth. More and more science tends to corroborate the old chimney-corner tales which until recent years were disbelieved by educated people. This was true of the vampire, long considered a mere folk-story invention of Central Europe but now recognized as a definite case in psycho-pathology. The same is true of the werewolf, the legendary monster which Henry Hull interprets in Universal's film, "Werewolf of London."
What is a werewolf? Some of the greatest writers in history including De Maupassant have written stories about this creature. When Universal decided to risk putting Robert Harris' daring story about the werewolf on the screen, Stanley Bergerman assigned John Colton, noted author of the play "Rain" to do the screen adaptation. In making his preparation to do the script Colton spent
a month in public and private libraries in research on the subject. He conferred with the psychiatrists and physiologists attached to Universal City's medical staff of specialists in order to build the screen character of Henry Hull for the werewolf part
Another scene in the terrific battle between Lester Matthews and Henry Hull in “W'erewolf of London .”
according to latest scientific tenets. He studied the hundreds of paintings by Goya and other masters on this mysterious subject before putting a line of dialogue or description on paper.
He found that werewolf means, "man-wolf;" a human being who has the power to turn himself into a wolf or who is turned into a wolf. In the Middle Ages and in the still more distant past, people believed that the changing into a wolf was accomplished by magic spells. Modern scientists hold that this change may be a very real and terrible psychopathic one called lycanthrophobia, acquired from the bite of a mad wolf which causes men to think they are wolves and act like wolves, preying murderously on mankind in their blood lust, when the periodic seizures accur.
In some cases the change from man to wolf has no outward man ( Continued on Page 31)