Word: humes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clearly was a woman powerless in the grip of passion, Lana Turner plays a peculiarly ill-defined character, driven in conflicting directions by muddled motives. Nor is Garfield, while more suitably cast, given a better organized role. The smaller parts are much neater; Cecil Kellaway as the husband and Hume Cronyn, as a lawyer who gets Miss Turner and Garfield out of their first major jam, give excellent performances...
...devil abroad in his 20th Century world is the ultra-rational scientist-technocrat, for whom man is the measure of all things; who would storm heaven with test tubes, nuclear fission and pure reason. Of one of his satanic prototypes Lewis says: "He had passed from Hegel into Hume, thence through Pragmatism, and thence through Logical Positivism, and out at last into the complete void...
Soon "Sunlight" was shining around the world, and the grocer's son was a peer, Lord Leverhulme (pronounced leave-er-hume), Viscount of the Western Isles. By the time brusque, autocratic, globetrotting Lord Leverhulme † died in 1925, his mercantile empire was well on its way to preeminence. By last week it had few equals anywhere in size, prosperity, diversity and complexity...
...walks away with the picture is Richard Haydn, who plays the mean-souled apothecary with style enough for Hamlet. Haydn is more & more clearly one of that group of supporting players (Hume Cronyn is another) who make American movies worth adult attention...
...Hume's account of his years in China, which won the $3,500 Norton Medical Award for 1946, is sketchy and unpretentious, but full of anecdote and East-West contrasts. Hunan 40 years ago had only recently admitted foreigners, and even substantial citizens still clung to their old ways. According to Chinese medical lore, the pulses were of prime importance in diagnosis-both the right and the left pulse, tested at three points on each wrist, each point revealing the condition of a particular organ. A freshly killed rooster helped to drive away fever. At time of childbirth, opened...