Though London's critics unanimously and openly sneered, Howard Hughes's sexsational The Outlaw was playing to record crowds at the London Pavilion. Last week 23-year-old Pressagent Suzanne Warner hit a headline jackpot. She lured a psychologist with a psycho-galvanometer (a gadget that measures emotional reactions) into the Pavilion. Her report: ¶ Critic Walter Wilcox of the Sunday Dispatch, who had penned a cool review, had a warm, 24-centimeter reaction to a close-up of Jane Russell's parted lips. ¶Hostile Critic Dick Richards of the Sunday Pictorial registered a more-than-friendly 28 centimeters to Jane in a loose bodice.
¶A lady moviegoer, who claimed indifference to...
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