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Speculation ran high in Cambridge yesterday as the full implications of President Roosevelt's Saturday night request for universal manpower conscription reached University officials and the estimated 25 percent of civilian undergraduates who are classified 4F by Selective Service...
...choruses are magnificently directed by Louis Kroll, whose master hand is evident everywhere in the production. The trick salute in "Pinafore" and the eminently satirical (or 4F, if you're nasty) nature of the chorus come over brilliantly; Gilbert would love Kroll...
Senator Wheeler went off on a new tack: "There are in this country today over 3,000,000 men in the 4F classification. . . . I have seen instance after instance of men who have been rejected subsequently going to work on the railroads or in factories, and demonstrating that they are just as strong as men in the services...
...most successfully sidetracks her prettiness for the more urgent priority of suggesting an exhausted young woman in coveralls. Paulette Goddard is easy to like in the fattest role in the film. She has a comic warmth and bounce reminiscent of the late Jean Harlow..Even easier to like is 4F (but outwardly rugged) Sonny Tufts, whose stumbling hands and voice develop wrinkles in the comedy of inarticulate love-making which are likely to become official among female cinemaudiences...
Last week, before he had time to make these dope stories look good, Prich went off to the Army. His draft board reclassified him from 4F to lA; the Administration, sensitive to criticism of its under-38 bachelors, made no effort to defer him. Said Prich typically: "I guess they scraped the bottom of the manpower barrel and now they have to take the barrel...