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The American
Screen
BY DOROTHY DOXXELL
So evcr> studio lot these da>-s finds foul deeds being committed, quarts of prop blood being shed, bodies being discovered behind secret panels and in haunted houses, and clues scattered
about ever>-Avhere. Instead oi the usual studio orchestra, weird devices for pRxlucing uncanny noises have taken the There is a machine
which can hoot like an owl. another which \ v. a cat. Wind-machines
wail "XNTioosh-whoo-sh." and slam shutters. In "The Haunted House" a police siren was put off behind the scenes ever> few moments, and the director kept his cast in the feeling of the picture bv making horrible noises through his megaphone and surpnsing them with clawlike hands thrust from behind the furniture at unexp>ected moments. No one. e.\cept the director, knew what was going to happen in .■ guessed who w. ; to be
murdered, with the result that the pi.. cians and stage v s went
home at night unner\'ed and gibbering.
Keeping the Dead Alive
IT might seem that the producers were tr>-ing to save money by killinf^ off their high salaried leading ladies early in the picture. But Margaret Livingston, the victim m "The Bellamy TnaJ," is kept before the eves of the spec >rs by a series of flash-backs, as t less at the tnal told of t <
■ ng lip to rhf ^nilvv.; -f her Kxh bv a kitchen knife, in th. ^ ci
. the strangled Canary in the "Ca
•i; ^ -.^h she IS murdered in the third reel.
"Ihe 1 error." Warner Brothers' contnbution to the cause oi nerxtnis prostration, boasts a murder committed in a deserted abbey in England during a seance. Trapdoors, hidden passages, and uncanny sights and sounds keep the earning as well as t' ' ' ■ the identity of "The Terror"
^t hidden until the ''v
h nal's TheHau **Ha!Ha'"
3 bt i-epwalker. a m.i v from Flora
proves that she has been wasted in the silent drama all these
. .....ad of the speakies, this type of sound picture should be termed
the shnekies. When one thinks of the old-fashioned, silent movies of a few
*hs ago where the ' -s could sleep peacefully a:' ' <rurbed
;gh the picture, one ^d to exclaim raptun-»uslv. '■\
a^c \e live in: N"
A iu5t the he^ '\
.ill. Kii>t \ tnote ir
OS in the nea ; "Seven : , , .~~
and the other is named "Shi The *.>ctopus." Just what sort of noise p,,<.-< iivike in their more emotional moments we do not know, but we '.'. n v»-er whether they roar, growl or purr. \.iMumhia Pictures has a haunted-house thriller called "Behind
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At thr t^^ The murder wttmt ia the "The L4wt W*niinc " Bdow. from the Minr r 'tuTY. L«uni La PUntc reciatcrint fncht and Bw Southeni playiac the -r tn " The H«unt«d Houae." At the bottoa: Roy D'Arcy creep* upon a »c«nc o( horror in ** The Laat Waminc "
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