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Captain Kidd (United Artists) has long been a synonym for a colorful public menace.* Seeing him in this new screen portrait, today's young cinemaddicts, teethed on TNT and entering an atomic adolescence, may find him a trifle archaic...
...Beebe had committed any violations. Beebe didn't seem to be paying much attention. He was preparing to publish a catalogue containing photographs of hair roots from the heads of static sufferers. After it is off the press, he prophesied, all previous methods of diagnosis will become archaic. Doctors will simply jerk a hair from a patient's head, put it under a microscope, and leaf through Beebe's booklet to find the trouble...
...dropped my spectacles," said 62-year-old Hugh Alexander Matier. Browsing through the Seattle Art Museum's far eastern collection, scholarly amateur Orientalist Matier stopped short before a piece of heavily carved jade, five inches square. Looking at its two imperial dragons, its authentic yellow tassels and its archaic characters, he was suddenly certain that he had found the long lost Imperial Seal of China's Hsien Feng...
Eddie's mother (Mary Phillips) felt that machines were "against God and nature." This semi-mystical debate on the virtues of the machine, which underlies the whole picture, is soberly set forth but not very convincing. But much more of the film concerns the comedy of archaic machinery, and that comes off much better (with expert help from James Gleason as an auto salesman, Chick Chandler as a demon fairgrounds aviator, and Fred MacMurray as a grease monkey...
Said the Socialist Avanti: "Thus disappears from our customs an archaic hangover from the days of the Spaniards. To give the title of Excellency no longer is a prerogative of the state but of shoeshine boys who may use or abuse it at their will and the will of their clients." Said the moderate Risorgimento Liber ale: "Don't be angry, Eccellenza Nenni, but do you think it is wise to attack Neapolitan shoeshine boys, who also will have their share in elections, with a tendency towards socialism? . . . And do you know-Freud found that our indignation...