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...dialogue. When a window breaks, a guest scoffs, "It's just a passing Jew." A woman carries chicken feet and feathers in her purse. A man shaves his leg with an electric razor. A hand without an owner fingers its way across the room. Throughout, Bunuel continues his career-long attack on church and stately. One woman sneers, "I think the lower classes are less sensitive to pain." Another begs for a washable rubber madonna from Lourdes...
Died. Percy Williams Bridgman, 79, metaphysically-inclined Yankee physicist who for 24 years occupied Harvard's prestigious Hollis Professorship of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, in 1946 won the Nobel Prize for his career-long study of the effect of high pressures (from 100,000 times the earth's normal atmosphere and up) on matter; by his own hand (.22-cal. sawed-off rifle) following the onset of cancer; in Randolph...
...recent years Colman led a squirely life in the Santa Barbara hills. With his actress wife Benita Hume he did a radio-and-TV comedy series (The Halls of Ivy), also played host to such career-long friends as Richard Barthelmess and William Powell. It fell to Barthelmess and Powell last week to escort Benita Hume Colman and the Colmans' only child, Juliet, to the funeral of Ronald Colman, dead of a lung infection...