"Auctioneer: Lot 666, then. A chandelier in pieces. Some of you may recall the strange affair of The Phantom of the Opera. A mystery never fully explained. We are told, ladies and gentlemen, that this is the very chandelier that figures in that famous disaster. Our workshops have restored it and fitted parts of it with wiring for the new electric light, so that we may get a hint of how it may look when re-assembled. Perhaps we may even frighten away the ghost of so many years ago with a little illumination. Gentleman!"

"Liz Robertson — Madame Giry"

"Daisy Maywood — Meg Giry"

"Barry James — Monsieur Richard Firmin"

"Gareth Snook — Monsieur Gilles André"

"Nils Asther — Count Luigi Ravelli"

"Bernard Siegel —"

"Cissy Fitzgerald — Giacinta"

"Loretta Young — Simonetta"

"Ford Sterling — Tricaud"

"Gwen Lee — Lucretia"

"Marc McDermott — Baron Regnard"

"Victor Seastrom's production of the famous stage play by Leonid Andreyev."

"What is it in human nature that makes people quick to laugh when someone else gets slapped - whether the slap be spiritual, mental, or physical?"

"Lon Chaney — Paul Beaumont"

"Norma Shearer — Consuelo"

"Paul Beaumont lived - to laugh at life. He laughed at his wife and the Baron - and left them to the doubtful joy of each other's society."

"John Gilbert — Bezano"

"Harvey Clark — Briquet"

"Tully Marshall — Count Mancini"

"Paulette Duval — Zinida"

"Lon Chaney — Tito/Flik"

"What did he hide behind his painted smile?"

"Laughter - the bitterest and most subtle death to hope..."

"A strange thing, the heart of a man - that loves, suffers, and despairs - yet has courage to hope, believe - and love - again."

"Years had passed - Paul Beaumont was forgotten - but the laugh was still his. For the brilliant scientist had, with a supreme gesture of contempt, made himself a common clown - In a little circus near Paris, he amused the idle, the ignorant and vicious, with an act of his own fancy - under the expressive name of "HE - Who Gets Slapped" - Five years before, Tricaud had hired the strange clown who desired only to be slapped - and now each night he proudly counted his slaps - and the laughs..."

"I say serious things - and people laugh at me!"

"How stupid people are - to laugh at a clown who lets himself be slapped."

"Over a hundred slaps last night, HE - you lucky fellow! Soon you'll be getting famous! But you know what they like - there's nothing makes people laugh so hard as seeing someone else get slapped!"

"In the grim comedy of life, it has been wisely said that the last laugh is the best..."

"Scott McKay — Dr. Dan Proctor"

"Marie McDonald — Miriam"

"Jerome Cowan — Mr. Hackett"

"Ruth Warrick — Ann Proctor"

"Anne Baxter — Evelyn Heath"

"Ralph Bellamy — Douglas Proctor"

"Margaret Hamilton —Hilda, the Maid"

"Aline MacMahon — Aunt Martha"

"SHE will never let you forget her!"

"Pray You Never Have This Evil Guest in the House!"

"Percy Kilbride — John, the Butler"

"The Boldest love story ever told!"

"Connie Laird — Lee Proctor"