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| San Francisco Examiner - August 5, 1943 |
When I saw that Bela Lugosi was allowed to take a break from playing Dracula on the stage with this production of Arsenic and Old Lace, I rooted around to find a review of this production. Just to see if the play's famous running gag of Jonathan being made to resemble Boris Karloff (because the character of Jonathan had been played by Karloff, both on and off Broadway) had been changed or rendered even 'funnier' by the irony of having Bela Lugosi hamming up his rage at being said to resemble Karloff by any and all who saw him.
Well, the Examiner review only mentions a distressing amount of flubbed lines and technical errors. Lugosi was described as being "big, intense, and mean" and that his performance, while differing from Karloff's famous turn, was nonetheless effective.
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