Word: magically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...became Brother Perdurabo ("I will endure to the end") of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. The group was interested in communication with good or angelic spirits in the "beyond" (William Butler Yeats was also a member). Crowley branched out a bit; he promptly set up a "black magic" room, and once by his own count gathered 316 devils together...
...Hevens, the Metasequoia hasn't anything to do with redwoods; sequoia is a magic word in California for fund raising," Merrill retorted, and added, "any alliance must be with the swamp cyprus...
...This is contrasted," he continued, "to the expressed Republican attitude which seems to be that you can solve these problems by some magic wand process...
...Magic Box (J. Arthur Rank; Mayer-Kingsley) is a lavish tribute to British cinema's pioneer William Friese-Greene (played by Robert Donat), who went without recognition during his lifetime, and died in poverty in 1921. The picture, a highly polished, occasionally over-reverent document that was made for last year's Festival of Britain, enlists many of the outstanding names in British films. It has some 70 stars, from Michael Redgrave to Emlyn Williams, in bit roles. It was produced by Ronald (Great Expectations') Neame, directed by John (Seven Days to Noon) Boulting, photographed in Technicolor...
...bumbling, Mr. Chips style, Donat plays the idealistic inventor with a good deal of warmth and wit. Best sequence: Friese-Greene excitedly demonstrating his newly perfected magic box by projecting flickering Hyde Park scenes in his laboratory in the dead of night to an audience of one: a stolid, bewildered London bobby, pungently played by Laurence Olivier...