Peep Show

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: P: 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. P:Hostile Critic Dick Richards of the Sunday Pictorial registered a more-than-friendly 28 centimeters to Jane in a loose bodice.

P:A lady moviegoer, who claimed indifference to sex on the screen, hit 29 centimeters when Jane prepared to share a gentleman's bed.

P: A soldier, fresh from two years' overseas duty, banged the top of the register during an actor's tussle with Russell in the hay.

The psychologist's conclusions: 1) average response to the film's Tchaikovsky background music--15 centimeters; 2) average reaction to Jane--22 centimeters; 3) average reaction to Jane with a Tchaikovsky background--34 centimeters. Press agent Warner's summary: "Tchaikovsky + Jane Russell = Sex."

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