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...good earth of our country with "Oklahoma." After several seasons when nearly every major offering has glorified the American ideal, it is more escapist and quite refreshing to look at a handsome musical of the best pre-war vintage set far from the North American continent. "Much Ado About Love" takes a fling in Renaissance Italy with a sparkling score, and the very English Melville Cooper to give an Ernest Truex air of sophistication...
Over at beautiful Appleton Chapel, John made the vows without much ado. Best wishes to another wise member from all the outsiders. Mr. Werhave, however, reports that the room is about 200 per cent quieter since the event. Best man Jim Rafferty has the answer to that one. But we're wondering why seemingly wild and independent Company 4 leads in number of marriages. (We realize that at the rate things happen around here this may be contested tomorrow afternoon...
There has been much ado about the postwar schooling of G. I. Joes, but very little about the prospects for some 185,000 G. I. Janes. Many of them too are eligible for free training, under the G. I. Bill of Rights. Last week the New Jersey College for Women (Rutgers University) was well on its way with a program especially designed for Jane's plans and pocketbook...
...never goes through the ritual of addressing the ball, without preliminary ado just steps up and hits it; he figures that he would lose about 25% of his effectiveness if he stopped to fiddle and fuss...
Last night, after much ado in the Boston papers, "Lassie Come Home" arrived at the Loew's State and Orpheum theatres. Surprising as it may seem after reading the rather insipid advertisements, the picture is one of the finest to come out of MGM in recent years. It ranks, as the ads have said, with "Random Harvest" and "Mrs. Miniver." But, instead of the case being "great books make great pictures," it is a situation where the acting of a collie has made an overly-sentimental book into a really touching picture...