Word: crystalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When a producer has a few extra millions that are feeling lonely, he concocts something like "The Crystal Ball." Not unlike the many thousand Melvyn Douglas-Norma Shearer-Joan Crawford-Robert Taylor et al gay sophisticated comedies that Hollywood has created under the categorical title of Ars Gratia Artis, "The Crystal Ball," with the Paulette Goddard-Ray Milland combo, makes a more distinctive showing at the box office than on the screen. Definitely an argument for the $25,000 a year income ceiling...
...film is formula fodder, to be treated with casual comment. If you're only eight minutes from Park Street, and there's nothing else to do, "The Crystal Ball" may prove to be somewhat of a mild sedative. And speaking of sedatives, the associate feature is one of the "let's play doctor" series, concerning Dr. Gillespie's search for a new assistant to succeed Dr. Kildare, who isn't mentioned for obvious reasons. Oddly enough, it's called "Dr. Gillespie's New--Assistant." Barry-more playing around with chemicals again...
...HAPPY GO LUCKY," "IMMORAL SERGEANT," "CRYSTAL BALL" NEW FILMS. --The Boston Herald, Sunday, March...
...Crystal Ball...
...Munich branch of the Reich Health Ministry last week added a "Department of Occultism." All fortunetellers, crystal-gazers, palm readers and sundry spiritualists will have to register so the Department may distinguish "dangerous forms of occultism with international connections" from those which may "be useful." In plain language, mediums who do not see Nazi victory in the air will henceforth work for Nazi victory in munitions factories, and those who predict victory will do business with official blessing...