WAIPAWA REGENT
"DEVIL DOLL" TO-MORROW Familiar and beloved though he is to patrons of the screen, Lionel Barrymore is recognisable only by his inimitable artistry, in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "The Devil Doll," showing'at Waipawa on Wednesday night. Barrymore ixnpersonates an ancient woman. The story concerns the career of . a half-mad scientist who conceives a formula that reduces animals and human beings to a sixth of their natural sizo and leaves them hopeless morons, subject to the will of tlxeir insane master. On the sxxrface the story may 60und unreal and morbidly imaginative, but on the screen it is strikingly effective and Ixighly amusing5 with a tender j'omance to provide the gentle touch of love. Frank Lawton and Maureen O'Sullivan, in the romantic leads, are excellent, xuxd a first-rate cast lends admirable support. The picture was directed by Tod Browning, frequently called "the Edgar Allen Poe of the Screen," whielx unquestionably xiccounts for the chargcd atmosphere and the eietr.ent of suspenso whicn liolds the audience in its grip.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 198, 7 September 1937, Page 11
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