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Feb. 4
1969
Boris Karloff dead after 50 year career
MIDHURST, England (UPI)—In a placid village far from the misty crags and castles he terrorized as Frankenstein's monster, Boris Karloff died as he really lived, in quiet dignity. He was 81.
His death Sunday of a respiratory ailment brought on by a chill he suffered in New York ended a half-century career of frightening the daylights out of movie audiences and, with less greasepaint and costuming, reading children's stories and poems in a soft and almost lisping voice.
Although best know for his 1932 portrayal of novelist Mary Shelley's Gothic monster, Karloff created a number of other screen frights and later turned to the stage where he played lovable as well as sinister characters.
Behind the makeup that turned his somber face and tall but stooped frame into the fiends of 130 horror films, Karloff was a man of gentle dignity and sensitivity. And much of it showed through in the roles he played.
Behind the makeup
"He gives the monster a soul," wrote a film critic of Karloff as the Frankenstein monster. "The amazing thing is that this creation in some way inspires you with pity."
Karloff himself had a particular affection for the monster created by Dr. Frankenstein, and he brought him to life on the screen numerous times in films such as "Frankenstein," "House of Frankenstein" and "Frankenstein—1970."
"He was inarticulate, helpless and tragic," Karloff once said of the monster. "To him, Frankenstein was God."
After finishing "Frankenstein—1970" 10 years ago, Karloff said he would never again play the monster.
"I owe him so much that I now owe him a little respect, a
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Happy ex-monster
little rest," he said.
Karloff became, in his own words, "a truly happy ex-monster." On the Broadway stage in New York, Karloff appeared in 1,400 performances of "Arsenic and Old Lace," "The Linden Tree," "The Shop at Sly Corner" and "Peter Pan" He played Mr. Darling in "Peter Pan."
Born William Henry Pratt in Dulwich, England, Karloff's first acting role was in a parish church pantomime when he was 10.
He was the youngest of nine children whose father had died, and his brothers wanted him to enter diplomatic foreign service. But he changed his name and worked as an unknown actor for 20 years before getting the role of the Frankenstein monster in 1932.
ALLENSTOWN, N.H.
(UPI)—Four skindlers plumbed the cold waters of the Suncook River yesterday seeking traces of 11-year-old Debra Lee Horn, who has been missing from her home since Wednesday.
the break-ups of their respective marriages.
Search continues for missing N.H.girl,11
State and local police in light planes and helicopters and ground search parties combed the woods around the Horn home and nearby Brook State Park seeking the pixie-haired, 50-pound youngster.
What happens when Oscar, a divorcee, and Felix, an estranged husband, decide to set up house together?
'Odd Couple' sets KU.
The answer is revealed in Neil Simon's comedy, "The Odd Couple," which begins tomorrow night at the University Theatre in Murphy Hall. Five performances will be given beginning at 8:20 p.m. tomorrow through Saturday, with a 2:30 p.m. matinee Sunday.
The setting for the play is a modern realistic apartment that lacks a woman's touch, said James Hawes, assistant professor of speech and drama and play director.
The play is about the incompatibility of two good friends who live together after
"Because the play is done almost realistically, we are using very little color in our lighting," Hawes said.
The main emphasis in directing "The Odd Couple" is situations instead of characters. The actors use technique to build character while drama requires method acting, he said.
Watson is 'self-service' now
The book stacks at Watson Library will be opened experimentally to undergraduates students for the spring semester of 1969, Terrence Williams, acting assistant director of the library, announced yesterday.
The decision to open the stacks to undergraduates "was made in an effort to get the students acquainted with a wider range of material and to improve service," Williams said. Undergraduates will be free to browse through the stacks and
serve themselves, alleviating the long waiting lines and the confusion involved with paging books.
Few heeding University of Chicago protesters
Watson officials believe the greatest advantage to the open stacks will be that the students will discover new material by investigating the materials in the stacks for themselves.
CHICAGO (UPI)-Protesting University of Chicago students, receiving little official reaction to their six-day occupation of the Administration Building, plan to interrupt sociology classes today to present their
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The protesters pointed out, however, no effort would be made to force sociology students to listen to them and normal activity in the five-story Social Science Building two blocks from the Administration Building would not be interrupted.
The protesters repeated their vow to occupy the
Administration Building until the university grants concessions to their demands. About 300 students have occupied the building. To date, the university has publicly ignored the protesters' activity.
The St. Charles streetcar in New Orleans is still in operation after 133 years of unbroken service.
Williams expects traffic to be the major problem involved. All the eight levels and the 75,000 volumes will be at the disposal of the students.
In the near future directional signs will be put up, and printed guides will be distributed for the benefit of the students. Also the library assistants will now be free to assist students.
Students can enter the stacks by the main entrance located at the west end of the circulation desk.
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