Cinema: Nose Opera

Scent of Mystery, the first picture made by Mike Todd Jr., son and heir of the late producer of Around the World in 80. Days, has been tagged by the Hollywood wisenheimers as "the first movie that ever smelled on purpose." Actually, it is the second smellie released in recent months. Behind the Great Wall (TIME, Dec. 21) beat Todd's picture to Broadway by a nose, partly because "amazing Aroma-Rama" (which breathes the "olfactory effects" in and out of a theater through its air-conditioning system) is simpler to in stall than Todd's "glorious Smell-O-Vision" (which supplies every customer with his very...

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