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...believe that all great figures of the 19th Century were just Tyrone Power in period costume. Alexander Graham Bell turns out to be Don Ameche without a haircut. However, Loretta Young, who is getting to be almost as much of an historical figure as Tyrone Power, appears satisfactorily as Mabel Gardiner Hubbard, a deaf girl who inspired Bell to continue with his invention and not resume his teaching of elocution...
...valuable material, much of it authentic, well-presented, exciting. Cinemaddicts will learn that Bell's first words over his new device, spoken just after he had spilled a bottle of acid, were: "Mr. Watson, come here. I want you." The picture then recounts Bell's partnership with Mabel Hubbard's father (Charles Coburn), his patent fight with Western Union and his meeting with Queen Victoria...
...Washington, D. C., attorneys for Mrs. Mabel Jones West of Birmingham, Ala. paid $280 to cover printing and other costs of an appeal to the Supreme Court against a Birmingham ordinance requiring her to have her Pekingese inoculated against rabies...
...title is D. H. Lawrence. The painters are Knud Merrild and Kai Götzsche, two strapping Danish immigrants who met Lawrence in Taos, N. M. in 1922, lived that winter with him and his wife, Frieda, in a crude ranch shack which they rented to escape Mabel Dodge (Luhan). Among the flood of memoirs-mostly by women-which have appeared since Lawrence's death in 1930, this one comes nearest to giving an objective picture of Lawrence...
...Lawrence proclaimed the need for killing off individual "schemers of all kinds" instead of indiscriminate killing in war. When Merrild asked whom he would kill first, Lawrence said Mabel Dodge. Merrild asked if he would shoot her or strangle her. "No," said Lawrence growing pale, "I will cut her throat...