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Chairman of the society's research committee is famed Psychologist Gardner Murphy, of Columbia University. With his backing, Miss Laura Abbott Dale, editor of the society's Journal, rounded up 54 college students, put them to work shooting dice. To rule out physical skill, she had them roll the dice four at a time, down a specially built washboard chute with 55 baffles, made each subject try for every number (from one to six) in turn. Results...
Married. Craig Biddle, 66, of the Philadelphia Biddies; and Alice Laura Savard, 44, his longtime nurse; he for the third time, she for the first; in Peace Dale...
...Dark Corner (20th Century-Fox) is a sort of Hollywood marriage of Laura (epigrams and lethal whams) and Murder, My Sweet (thugs, drugs and hugs). The alliance is not a perfect match...
...distinguished from the character. Otto Kruger turns in an excellent performance, but he, nevertheless, is Otto Kruger playing Waldo Lydecker: the difference is subtle but all important. Paradoxically, Miriam Hopkins, twice the actress Gene Tierney is, lacks the latter's cold, elusive quality, just right for the mysterious Laura...
...workmanlike, professional production, with occasional good writing and uniformly fine acting. "Laura" might have been a welcome addition to the 1946 season. But it never becomes more than mediocre theatre because the ghost of a fine motion picture hovers about...