Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Good Old Days. In Croydon, England, Miss E. Noriss bit her tongue severely in her sleep, told the doctor that she had been dreaming about prewar meals...
...tempted to sleep...
...modern-day "Gaslight" is holding forth at the U.T. Complete with hypnosis and a husband bent on murdering his wife, "Sleep My Love" gives that forbidding atmosphere to New York's fashionable Sutton Place which was the forte of the earlier Bergman-Boyer thriller. "Sleep My Love" is definitely not Academy Award material, but it, makes a refreshing and suspenseful two hours...
Casting in "Sleep My Love" is unfortunate, with Miss Colbert in the role of a very young wife and Don Ameche as the ogre. But their performance considering physical handicaps are adequate. Robert Cummings is debonair as the passing hero, and gives a fair imitation of the snave prewar Robert Montgomery. George Colouris is his customarily minister self, and Hazel Brooks, oh well, she'll never learn...
Mesmer & Magnetism. Hypnotism has been inspiring public interest and noisy argument ever since the days, in 18th Century Paris, when Franz Anton Mesmer developed his controversial technique. It was first called mesmerism and then hypnotism (from a Greek word meaning sleep). In Mesmer's day, "magnetism" was the scientific catchword that "atomic" is today. Mesmer had already been kicked out of his native Vienna for acting on his belief that people got sick when they ran short of "magnetic fluid." He was out to show Paris that he could relieve the shortage. The Mesmer clinics are described...