European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 23, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse The love Lucy quartet in the 1950s Lucille Ball Vivian Vance Decsi Arnaz and William Frawley. Watching lug a. A and the gang love Europe by Susan King los Angeles times Europe has never been the same since the Madcap Ricardos and the Meetzes spent their vacation on the continent stirring up laughs and mischief during the 1955-56 season of 7 love Lucy. And fans of the legendary lbs sitcom which starred Lucille Ball Desi Arnaz William Frawley and Vivian Vance can relive the funniest european vacation to Ever hit the Small screen on lbs video s new three volume set Bon voyage i love Lucy and ventics in Europe. The videos contain the Complete 17-episode euro Pean Story arc. The shows which total 6l/i hours Are edited together without opening titles and end cred its. The film to tape transfers were made from the original 35 my prints. Inserted into each video is an i love Lucy pass port to fun a Book of puzzles relating to Lucy s european trip. Resembling an american passport it includes crossword puzzles word searches and mazes. Fans who mail in a correctly completed Puzzle by year s end have a Chance to win a trip to Europe and Fol love the redhead and cd s itinerary London Paris Scotland Rome and Monte Carlo. The european Story line set sail on i love Lucy on dec. 12,1955, with Ricky s european booking. In this episode Ricky and his band Are hired to per form in Europe. Lucy naturally assumes Shell accompany him on the voyage. But Ricky tells Lucy that because of expenses she can come along Only if she can raise the Money for her passage. After Ricky hires Fred to be the band manager Lucy and Ethel dream up a scheme to accompany them. The episodes on the videos feature some of the Best loved Lucy stories including Lucy meets the Queen in which Lucy goes to great lengths to be presented to Queen Elizabeth while i London. The fantasy Lucy goes to Scotland finds Lucy dreaming of her Macgillicudy clan s Kildonan. Love Lucy always attracted major Hollywood guest stars Over the year including William Holden Cornel Wilde John Wayne and har to Marx. While abroad the famous romantic French actor Charles Boyer appears As himself on the de Lilit fill Lucy meets Charles Boyer. The Best of the. 1.7 episodes is. Lucy s italian movie which originally aired april 16,1956. The hilarious entry finds Lucy spotted by a famous italian director on a train. Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball were a hit on love Lucy the lbs sitcom that ran from 1951 to 1961. Beta Lugosi in 1931 s Dracula. Classical part of monster oldies still lives by Robert Bianco Pittsburgh Post Gazette what s the difference Between classic horror film and the modern variant in the classics the camera Cut away when the monster caught its victim. Today what comes after the capture is All that counts. There s one More difference the old style monster movies which pretty much include everything made before night of the living dead arc not very scary. Maybe it s be cause we figure anyone slow or stupid enough to be caught by Frankenstein or the creature deserves whatever happens to him. At any rate As Mca Universal no doubt knows you re not going to buy one of its new horror collector s sets to get scared. You buy them for the acting the style and the stories. They May not hold up As thrillers but they hold up As solid Hollywood entertainment. Monsters made Universal and its three. Greatest monsters Frankenstein 1931dracula 1931 an the Wolf Man 1941 make up the studio s Best set the monster s collector s set. Dracula has t aged As Well As the other two Bola Lugosi is still kind of scary but hot quite in the Way the filmmakers intended but All Are still Worth revisiting. It s a leap from the monsters tothe Mummy set which packages Boris Karloff s original Mummy 1932 with Lon Chaney s inferior sequels the Mummy s curse 1944 and the Mummy s ghost 1944 and How exactly do the undead get to have ghosts. Unless you Are an Egypt maniac skip the package and get the Mummy by itself the last package Aims More toward fans of the genre s camper aspects. The creature collector s set combines the 1954 favorite the creature from the Black Lagoon sans 3 d glasses but still a great example of the Sci i monster movie with the revenge of the creature 1955, and featuring Clint Eastwood s screen debut and the creature walks among us 1956 Scripps Howard news Sorvick october 23, 1094 jul Day Page 19
