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Here the blend of monstrous violence with the wild Russian music on the stage achieves the realization of terror which is lost in the rest of the yarn. Eddy is roaring another "opera," based on Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony.As a matter of record, this sequence is the only one in the film in which the potential excitement of the story is realized. (This is after the Phantom has drugged the leading soprano's cup.) And then, for that memorable sequence in which the Phantom drops the huge chandelier on the heads of the glittering audience (but why he did it we'll never know), Mr. Eddy and Miss Foster sing a fictitious opera based on themes of Chopin. Together they make about as boring a pair of rival suitors as we dread to see.A lengthy scene from the third act of the opera "Martha" is at the opening of the film, and then Mr. Barrier is the high-hat detective who tries to solve the mysteries of the opera house. And when he isn't singing or preparing, he is usually making ponderous love, which is oddly supposed to be funny, to Miss Foster, along with Edgar Barrier. Eddy is up there on the stage, singing songs, usually in company with Susanna Foster, who plays-and sings-the daughter role quite pleasingly. Mostly he is seen as a shadow, flitting by on the walls and doing all sorts of murderous mischief so that his daughter may get ahead.Meanwhile, the windy Mr. But then, when his cherished concerto is presumably stolen by a music publisher, he kills the latter, becomes an outcast and haunts the opera house as a homicidal maniac.
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He is, in this rewritten version of the old Gaston Leroux tale, nothing more than the unsuspected father of an understudy in the opera company who tries very hard and in secret to advance his daughter's career. And that is the principal reason why this remake of the old Lon Chaney film is bereft of much of the terror and macabre quality of the original.For now the role of the Phantom has been very much watered down, and Claude Rains has been made to play it in a sort of Lone Ranger style. Indeed, you might almost think the picture was made just so he might sing. He is no phantom in this one he is very much in solid evidence, and his lungs are working as strongly and as loudly as they have ever worked before. The fact that the name of Nelson Eddy appears at the head of the cast of Universal's "The Phantom of the Opera," which came to the Capital yesterday, is not to be taken as evidence that Mr.