MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM
[MOTION-PICTURE]
[Montana Butte Standard, January 2, 1933—“Hollywood in Person” by Mollie Merrick]
Mys t e r i es w i th t he horror a n g le
a re stll! the most p o p u l ar form of
Hollywood p i c t u r e. Lionel A t w l ll
B l g ns tor a n o t h er one w i th "Murders In the Zoo," which P a r amo u nt
w i ll produce a nd f or whi ch G a ll
P a t r i c k, R a n d o l ph Scott, C h a r l ie
Flugglcs and John Lodge h a ve a lr e a dy b e en cast. "Doctor X," Atwlll'i! f i r st h o r r or h i t, was f
o l l owed
by "Wax Mus eum." In which this
a c tor a g a in scored a not able t r iu m ph at the preview by reason or
t he f a ct t h at his diction wan no
c l e ar and lovely, his a c t ing fa rcut r a ined a nd c omp e t e nt a nd h l»
m a k e up a t r i u m ph w h i ch sets the
r e cords of Lon C h a n cy nnd Boris
K a r l o ff on t he B|K>t for pe r f e c t ion.
It took Atwi ll six hours—«lx hourn
of torture by the way-^to be cor^
r c c t ly f i t t ed into the elaborate
m a s k - m a k e up for "Wax Museum."
Pr epa r ed for the role at First Nat i o n al s tudio by the expert* t h e r e,
he was dr iven In a closed car to
Warner's we s t e rn s t u d io w h e re t he
scenes were be ing shot. Twice ho
wo r k ed In I he u n c o m f o r t a b le he at
of the mask u n t il he collapsed. But
the net r e sult IB o n e - of "the mos
convincing bits of motion picture work done on tho n o u nd n l n g cs of
H o l l y w o od to dut c.
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