WAIPAWA REGENT
"devil doll" to-night. 'Familiar and beloved though he is to patrons of the screen, Lionel Barryuiore is recognisable only by his inimitable artistry, in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "The Devil Doll," showing at Waipawa to-night, Wednesday. Barrymore iinpersonates an ancient womau. The story concerns the career ^of n lialf-uuid seientist who conceives a formula that redqees animals and hunian beings to a sixtb of their natural sizn and leaves them hopeless morous, subject to the will of their iusaue master. On the surface the story may sound unreal and niorbidly iiuaginative, but on the screen it is strikingly eifective and highly amusing, with a tender romauce to provide the gentle touch of love. Frank Lawton and Maureen O'Sullivan, in the romantic leads, are excellent, and a first-rate > cast lends admirable support. The pieture was directed by Tod Browning, frequently called "the Fdgar Allen Poe of the Screen," which unquestionably accounts for the charged atmosphere and the eletr.ent of suspense whicn holds the audience in its grip.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 199, 8 September 1937, Page 13
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