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Bell, Book and Candle (by John van Druten; produced by Irene Mayer Selznick) comes up with a bright comedy idea and, for perhaps better than half the evening, with a bright comedy. Playwright van Druten has assumed not only that there are modern-day witches but that they can be modish and highly efficient, and that one of them is attractive enough to ensnare a bright Manhattan publisher. When the publisher discovers she is a witch, he walks out on her-only for her to discover she is now a woman. Hoist on her own broomstick, she has fallen...
...This was evidently poetry.) A young woman rushed in, fleeing from a witch-hunting posse. The townsfolk, she explains, accuse her of raising the dead...
...momentous story tells of a discharged soldier, half swashbuckler and half misanthrope, who wanders upon a market town to find it conducting a witch hunt. In an effort, both altruistic and egoistic, to divert attention from the unknown "witch" to himself, he bellows to anybody who will listen that he has committed murder and insists on being hanged. But once he sees the young and beguiling witch, he is willing to be cleared of murder and in a fair way to be cured of misanthropy...
Lilli Palmer plays Gillian Holroyd, an attractive young witch who takes a liking to a publisher (Rex Harrison) living upstairs. Although witches can't love, she casts a semi-permanent spell on him. Miss Holroyd (whose name means "Holy Rood" in archaic English), is just beginning to enjoy life when her witch aunt and her warlock brother arrive to tangle things up. A pathetic little author of witchcraft books is drawn to the apartment and his descriptions of "them" afford some enjoyable snickers...
...Scientists must not be milked dry and then hung like witch doctors," said Norbert Wiener of M.I.T., at last night's Law Forum. He urged freedom of scientific thought and inquiry...