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...Hollywood Story (Universal-International) is a very poor man's Sunset Boulevard. Like its predecessor it shows the Hollywood of the present poking into the Hollywood past, with the movie great at work and at play, and screen oldtimers (Francis X. Bushman, Helen Gibson, William Farnum) as they look today. But the new movie is a formula whodunit without benefit of suspense, characterization, or anything else except some superficial Hollywood atmosphere...
...last speaker for the opposition in the morning was George R. Farnum, president of the Massachusetts Anti-Vivisection League, who promised to be brief. He wasn't. He described an experiment where a dog was beaten on the leg from 700 to 1,000 times with a rawhide mallet to induce shock. He also described other experiments. The crowd gasped in horror. The woman behind me muttered "Butcher, butcher." "Open the animal pounds," Farnum went on, "and who will say that their next demand will not be for access to . . . insane asylums...
Then the medical men brought out their feature attraction, Dr. John F. Connally. Connally pointed out how distorted and exaggerated Farnum's claims were, and he explained the real experiments. He pointed out how animal experimentation contributed to the development of respiratory devices like the iron lung. There was forced laughter among the listeners...
General consultants from New England participating in the panels include Cyril G. Sargent, John B. Langmuir, Joseph E. Bear, Fred B. Pitkin, Howard Stone, J. P. Howard, John E. Marshall, Elmer S. Horton, Carl J. Batchelder, Paul E. Farnum, William O. Bailey, and James H. Bruffee...
Walter W. Farnum...