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...Crystal Ball (United Artists) is an undressing contest between blonde, seductive Virginia Field and redheaded (for this film) Paulette Goddard. Miss Goddard does not take off quite as much as Miss Field, but she does it twice as often and eventually wins the prize (Ray Milland...
...uninhibited, involved comedy directed in the Preston Sturges manner by playful Elliott Nugent, the film casts Paulette as a shapely Texan who loses a beauty contest and somehow becomes a crystal gazer. This puts her in a practically perfect position to confuse her rival (Virginia) and convince her quarry (Ray) that his destiny wears red hair. These shenanigans occasionally achieve a quality of amiable screwiness...
...crystal eye and calmly piercing mind...
Jack Barnaby was a happy man this Christmas with good reason. His pet project, the Varsity Squash Racquets Team, had just taken over the finals of the Invitation Intercollegiate Squash Tournament. Run by the University Club in New York, the tournament has in the past been an excellent crystal ball for gazing into coming intercollegiate competitions...
Comparative scores, always deceptive in sizing up a team, show that the Huskies lathered M.I.T. 4 to 1 last Tuesday evening. If it be remembered that the Chasemen whaled the saine outfit 13 to 4 an evening later, there emerges from the crystal ball a Harvard victory--perhaps a slightly more difficult triumph than the previous...