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| San Francisco Examiner - February 20, 1932 |
The 20th of February fell upon a Saturday in 1932. A day that saw the final performance of a revival of Crane Wilbur's popular "old dark house" play The Monster.
The production opened on Sunday, February 7th and ran for two successful weeks. Lloyd S. Thompson, in a glowing review that appeared in the Examiner on Monday, February 8th, described The Monster as "a good old standard shriek-opera." One that called for "dimmed lights, mysterious sounds, eerie smells, trapdoors and clutching claws."
Thompson also shared how the Sunday matinee "audience howled with alternate glee and fright" and that "a squad of uniformed nurses flitted hither and yon looking for fainting ladies upon whom to demonstrate their nostrums."
Sounds like it was one hell of a fun show to attend.
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