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...husband vanish into thin air before her eyes, she thought at first that he must be a ghost. Then she realized that she was one. For a while, Lester and her sniveling girl friend Evelyn (they had been killed by the same crashing plane) were lonely in the soundless, deserted London they haunted. But then they got involved with a gaunt, ascetic emissary of the Devil named Simon Leclerc (he was disguised as a popular religious leader and preached about Love...
...abracadabra, but sometimes it stands on end at a weird glimpse of real black magic. Everett Sloane, as Rita's lame and jealous husband, crawls through the picture as horribly as a spider; and Glenn Anders, as a man who madly plots his own murder, has developed a soundless laugh as chilling as a razor's edge scraped across plate glass. Orson has done a capable job with his brogue, a flashy one with the camera. But not all of his magic works. He makes a blonde out of his onetime wife, redhead Rita Hayworth...
Using a Broadway theatre makes it certain at the start that everyone will be able to see and hear everything for exactly half the price he would pay for a sightless, soundless seat in the Met. And the production of the Menotti work by the Ballet Society, a nonprofit group organized just this year to encourage new ventures in music and dance, so far outdistances anything the Metropolitan ever dreamed of that it is like a different artistic field entirely...
...Once in a hotel in Birmingham, he told a Negro maid that his dummy keyboard (for limbering up between concerts) was a holy piano whose music could be heard only by the pure and sinless. Then he ran off a long, soundless glissando. When he looked up, the maid had disappeared...
Soon after Pearl Harbor, the Electric-acoustic lab became the first war research group at the University. Work of Leo L. Beranec's staff centered around the carefully constructed "dead room," which reproduces the virtually soundless conditions of high altitudes and is considered the best sound chamber in the country...