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...already earmarked it "pure box office," a term meaning that no matter what happens on the screen, the star-spangled cast is a cinch to make money. This is a very fortunate circumstance for MGM, since what does happen on the screen is not likely to hold anyone spellbound for the two hours and seven minutes that the film lasts...
...into a criminal, he complained, but "they had this Lone Ranger shootin' a gun out of my hand-and me an expert!" The onetime cattle-rustler, train-robber, killer (some dozen men by his own count), jailbird† (pardoned by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1907), held the jury spellbound with tales of his early crimes, but earnestly denied that he had ever robbed a bank. "I don't know anything about burglary," he insisted...
...Edouard Brown-Sequard, eminent French physiologist, announced at the age of 72 that he had succeeded in revitalizing himself by brewing the mashed-up sex glands of dogs and guinea pigs in a salt solution and injecting the mixture under his skin. An audience of distinguished French scientists listened spellbound to details of the miraculous transformation. But Sequard's new lease on life lasted just one month; then he began to wither. When he died in 1894, he and the potentialities of the male hormone were both badly discredited...
Terrible Incubus. Julian was spellbound at the wonderful simplicity of this social order. Few present-day readers, having observed the results of state collectivism in practice, would be so uncritical. Edward Bellamy's present (and first) biographer. Dr. Arthur E. Morgan, is also a distinguished visionary: former president of pioneering Antioch College and onetime chairman of TVA. He readily admits that Bellamy's projected social system "would result in actual regimentation" and, if administered by the wrong officials, "might be a terrible incubus on society." But Looking Backward was a warmhearted vision which unquestionably speeded social reform...
...unlikely to be drafted.) At present he is probably the most drawn-&-quartered property in cinema. His contracts call for one film a year for Fox, one for M.G.M., two each, over a four-year period, for Casey Robinson, Selznick and RKO. He has already finished Selznick's Spellbound with Bergman, directed by Hitchcock, and Metro's Valley of Decision, with Garson, directed by Garnett...