Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-11-19 | Page 3 | Weird Tale Being Told on Screen at R-K-O Orpheum

1 I I Weird Tale Being Told on Screen At R-K-O R Orpheum Thrilling the audience at the R O K KO Orpheum theater with its weird characters char and eager suspense The Old Oid Dark House Universals UnIversal strange drama of on one exciting night in jn a lonely Welsh manor manor opened its engagement engagement en ene here Frida Friday Th The film tells a story of ot a group of travelers on a end weekend vacation who are arc caught Ina In ina a howling storm and forced to seek shelter for the night in an ancient bleak house where a family of inherent in herent insanity lives ruled by a J. J hulking hulk ing lag servant of brutal character As th the night progresses the thc gigantic gigan gigantic tic tie brute resenting the intrusion becomes becomes be be- comes dangerously drunk and threat threatens ens the thc entire household Attempts to subdue him only enrage the thc evil giant and after a series of terrific battles battlas he hc hastens to loose loos upon the entire group a terror which even even the occupants of th tho awful house fear lear From then on stark terror reigns and the horrified guests are arc pJ placed ce i In desperate des des- parate situations and events move swiftly to a a powerful climax Boris Karloff Karlo makes very much of the thc sinister part of the insane servant His makeup is entirely new from the standpoint of sheer repulsiveness and andone andone one can calt hardly imagine the care and time it must have taken to get into his role before actual shooting be began gan Others who st stand nd out in the large cast are Charles Laughton Melvyn Douglas Ernest Eva Moore Lillian Bond and Gloria Stuart James Whale has turned out outa a neat piece of f direction Robert formerly of or Los Angeles An An- geles gales has arrived In Salt Lake to assume duties in the publicity department depart depart- ment of the Orpheum Mr Baral BanI who has hM handled correspondence for several national theater publications spent the past summer In Hollywood studying film production and promotional promo work He Is former fonner stage and screen editor of the Journal-Gazette Journal in Fort Foit Wayne Ind md I