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“PHANTOM OF OPERA” AT ROOSEVELT MONDAY‘The Phantom of the Opera,” Lon Chaney’s much-heralded successor spectacle to “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” and one of the most daring departures in screen portrayals ever attempted, comes Monday to the Balaban Katz Roosevelt theatre. It^ is a spectacular mystery of Paris, in which a complete operatic performance, staged in a huge replica of the Paris Opera House, largest in the world, is compared with weird and grotesque adventures in the great cellars and catacombs.Lon Chaney plays “The Phantom,” a strange creature of the shadows, in a makeup that eclipses his weird disguise as “Quasimodo” in the Hugo classic. Mary Philbin, plays the opera singer whom he kidnaps into his underground stronghold, and Norma Kerry plays her lover and rescuer.Much of this action is taken in color photography, which gives a vivid aspect to the kaleidoscope scenes.
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Chicago Sentinel
Chicago, Illinois, US
Fri, Dec 04, 1925
Page 8
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