Word: drama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dracula" probably represents the great horror drama of all time. The Harvard Dramatic Club's choice of this play reflects a sensitivity to popular reactions, for it has seldom been produced since its Broadway performance over fifteen years ago. Even if you did see Bela Lugosi do it in the movies a few years back, the play won't be mere repetition, since each Dracula is sinister in his own chilly way. You can hear were-wolves and howling dogs off stage, while a bat and a maniac add to the actual scene. A full quota of green light, darkness...
...weaknesses don't matter much. It is good theatre any time and has just the proper flavor for summer fare. Some of the lines may sound trite and some simply absurd, but the laughter disappears after a few attempts at blood-sucking. If you can forget sensitive, psychological drama for a while, you'll be sitting on the edge of your seat most of the evening. And you may not feel like taking the shortest route home through the darkened Yard after two and a half hours of well-played horror. In fact, you may steer clear of all shadowy...
...jungle that every kid explorer dreams about, but no real one sees with less than four zombies under his belt. If you can overlook this minor detail though, there are several other bits of humor that make this picture a sorry contrast to the recent run of heavy drama. Top billing goes to Dorothy Lamour and Richard Denning, both well exhibited as Hollywood's handsomest hunks. But the feature performer, the guy who lifts the film out of the Class D league, isn't even mentioned on the program. Much funnier than comic Jack Haley and apparently far more intelligent...
...appeared last week. But whether Churchill or Bullitt, or even Stalin, was actually in Moscow none but Nazi radio announcers professed to know. Even so, it was a good bet that they were, and that somewhere inside the Kremlin there was being played out an amazing scene in the drama of World...
Curtain. What all newsmen in Moscow may have been itching to report was that Churchill and Bullitt actually were in Moscow. If so, the Kremlin shrouded drama of the highest order...