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Versatile Actress McGuire (Claudia, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn) plays the mute girl to a fare-you-well, finally managing to stammer some words into an antique wall telephone after the shock of seeing the last of a series of murders. However improbable such a recovery may be in a medical sense, it makes excellent cinema sense. So do a dozen other scenes in the picture...
Last week the deposed white man was back in The Netherlands East Indies, but in paltry force. The yellow man's rule was broken, but he had not gone. Both of them had lost face. From the mute mass of the people rose fierce men who sought bloody fulfillment of Djayabhaya's prophecy. For the moment of deadlocked struggle, nobody ruled Indonesia...
...judge for himself. TIME'S correspondent has visited the uncompleted shrine near Val D'Or, found it busy. The shrine's spring of "holy water" did not suddenly gush forth; it has always been there. Pierrette's most highly regarded "miracle"-restoring speech to the mute son, aged seven, of a local truck driver-is questionable. He was never mute, does not yet talk spontaneously -just repeats words. Says TIME'S correspondent: "The inhabitants of this thriving pioneer mining town [TIME, Sept. 24] now are wondering about a different kind of future...
Familiar Talk. In Los Angeles, Deaf Mute John M. Yenscho was able to identify Deaf Mute Ignacio Amezue as the masked man who had held him up: "I recognized him by the way he wiggled his fingers...
...hard-rock miner insists that he personally saw his mother-in-law, stone deaf for years, recover her hearing. Clermont Roy, who says he saw two crippled children fully cured by the girl, claims that his own eight-year-old son, mute since birth, began to talk after visiting Pierrette. Said Mme. Philippe Coulombe: "I have just taken 20 steps down the street, when for a long time I have not been able to take two steps in my kitchen without my crutches...