AMUSEMENTS
EVERYBODY’S PICTURES.
TO-NIGHT AND TUESDAY
“FRANKENSTEIN.”
Boris Karloff, who plays the murderous monster of Universal’s “Frankenstein” at the Princess Theatre, is more than six feet in height and weighs more than 200 pounds. Nevertheless, Director James Whale thought him far too diminutive for the scientificallymanufactured criminal of the eeiie thriller, and added exactly 48 pounds of make-up and additional body structure to him for the characterisation. Karloff’s make-up, guarded religiously by Universal employees, during the making of the film, lest the pubilc receive an inkling of the picture’s odd mystery character, is said to he the most unusual and terrifying that the screen has even seen. Theatre patrons whose nerves were supposed to be jumpy were warned not to see it. So they are- going in droves. They aic convince!! that Boris Karloff can take up the mantle of Lon Chaney. Colin Clive, Mac Clarke, John Boles, Dwight Frye. Edward Van Sloan and Frederick Kerr head the cast with Karloff. Shorts include Bobby Jones Golf Short and serial.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 May 1933, Page 3
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169AMUSEMENTS Hokitika Guardian, 15 May 1933, Page 3
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