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...interesting and seem to have a wide and general significance. In the first play, Margaret Leighton plays a sexually-repressed model, statuesque and "cut out of ice"; in the other she is again sexually repressed, but this time as the whimpering invalid daughter of a domineering mother. Eric Portman is in both cases sexually frustrated, but his first example is that of a hard-drinking, warmly honest journalist would-be politician, while in the second play he becomes a man who doesn't drink, is timid with women, and is only sexually perverted and dishonest with himself...
...paper to be presented this afternoon to the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, Oscar W. Portman, a post-doctoral fellow at the School, describes a saturated fat diet which has been 90 per cent effective in inducing the disease in cebos monkeys imported from South Africa...
...basic preparation in this diet was developed approximately three-years ago by George V. Mann while working in the Nutrition Department of the School of Public Health. During the last two years, Portman has continued Mann's work, determining the specific amounts of fat needed to affect the arteries. He has found that shifts in amounts and concentrations cause variations in speed and seriousness of the disease...
Dear "Murderer (Rank; Universal-International) is a man who tries to commit the perfect crime, by murdering his wife's lover. Eric Portman is wearily proficient as the murderer; Greta Gynt is blowsily sexy as the wife. The forces of British law & order are, as usual, so immaculately polite about their business that it might tempt some U.S. observers to mayhem, just for the pleasure of meeting them. Occasionally there is a flicker of ingenuity or fright, but most of this picture is sad, stock-company stuff...
...Wanted for Murder," a British film, starring Eric Portman and Duleic Gray, is a Jekyll and Hyde story of a young, wealthy Englishman who strangled his feminine companions to death. At first befuddled, Scotland Yard finally arrives to save the life of the sixth victim...