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MYSTERY PLAYINOW RUNNING ATSTRAND THEATREiMany Circus Freaks of Note Are Introduced in ThisPictureo*Strange forms in the dark, eerir-mystery anil a grim plot of revenue are among the dramatic highlights in Tod Browning’s most daring contribution to the screen “Freaks’* which opens at the Strand Sunday for a four days engagement.■ “Freaks'* is the picture thatbeen given high place among the-best films of the month. Its story of mystery, love and revenge an I retribution would do credit to an Edgar Allen Poe story.I Beautiful Leila Hyams and young Wallace Ford are cast as the two romancers. Miss Hyams as the seal trainer and Wallace Ford as lb*' clown. Their romance is a bright spot in this unusual and fantasticpicture.Story It Real DramaAn intensely dramatic story is ua-l folded as the picture progresses. Ascheming trapeze performer accepts the love of a midget, so that he will niarry her. After the marriage she plans* to poison him, in order to inherit his money. The marriage takes place. The woman attempts to ca**-ry out uer plan, so that she would j be tree to marry her real lover, the;Strong Man ct the circus.At the wedding feast, despite the protests of the beautiful seal trainer and the clown, the trapeze pet*-1 former insults the freaks of the cir*I!cus and drives them away. Her plotto poison her midget husband is dt-covered and the freak* plan a terrible revenge. The trapeze performer and her lover, the Strong Man, try to escape, but they are caught and made the victims of a horrible ritual.Tod Browning, who made “Dra-cula” and “The Unholy Three.” has surpassed his efforts in these films, and has made “Freaks’* the mo«st sensational of all his screen productions. -*■World-Famous Freaks The cast of “Freaks” includes Olgs Baclanova in the role of the trapezeperformer: Roscoe Ates in a comedy characterization, I^eila Hyams |, ! and Wallace Ford as the two young t lovers, and Harry Earles in the prin-: cipal midget tole.| Among the world-famous freaks he | who an pear in this picture are Johnny Eck, the hoy with half a torso; \ Peter Robinson, the Living Skel.1-, ton; Olgt, ihe Bearded Woman; Koo ud | Coo, the Bird Girl; Martha who h*sj «e . no arms. Incidentally Martha, thongn be-1 she has no arms, can sew, embro:-jder. and do anything another woman * can do with her hands. How? With1 her toes, of course.Coming on Thursday ol* j The lawless Woman.” a news-e s ! paper story, opens at the Strand ke Thursday for a run of three days. It he ‘ concerns a young man who has bee*; . in given a try out on a big newspaper.HeV'3-forheiv-f»c-Rv accident, he hits on a mystervporters ie»l him to “lay off'* the ; story; that the true facts will K-1, murder n tre underworld. Older rehetellid | covered up and that he will only get he j ridiculed for his trouble. The b^v, jht however. i.s determined to get to the bottom of the aftair.In the course oi his investigation, he makes 3 strange discovery which leads him to romance, to mystery, it, j to near de£.*h.nd i Vera Reynolds, Carroll Nye. Gwenae| I*ee, rhillips Smalley. Wheeler Ooak-I man and Thomas Jackson handle* be! the leading roles. itoi i*l.id*ed
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Dubuque Telegraph Herald And Times Journal
Dubuque, Iowa, US
Sun, Mar 13, 1932
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