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...same time, Mrs. Josephine Hull, Radcliffe '99, star of "Arsenic and Old Lace" and "Harvey," was formally initiated...
There were several times during the evening when I thought "Mrs Gibbons' Boys" might save itself by turning into a complete farce. Unfortunately, it never did. The character of the mother, as played by Lois Bolton, is frequently pathetic: she is not insane, (as say, the two sisters in "Arsenic and Old Lace,") but is obviously genuinely in love with her sons. She is thrilled to have them back home even if it means a jail-break, and she is also quite serious about her Gas Company beau...
Ford Theater (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS-TV). Boris Karloff in Arsenic and Old Lace...
Doubtless all this might be funny (after all, there was Arsenic and Old Lace). But it isn't. And it is all the less funny because it tries so hard to be. It is crudely and noisily staged, gives up satire for slapstick, proves even more alcoholic than macabre. It owes its few real laughs to what Thomas Mitchell, as the undertaker, does with his facial muscles and his vocal cords...
Whether the new treatments will prove a permanent cure remains to be seen. When arsenic was first in vogue for syphilis, a few treatments often healed the sore and temporarily made Wassermann tests negative; ten years or so later, the patient sometimes suffered from the late stages of syphilis (insanity, paralysis and heart disease). Conclusive results of this or any other penicillin routine will not be known for at least ten years...