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...Ferber 25 years ago and as a Broadway musical hit a year later, has steamed across the screen twice before, in 1929 and 1936, but never with such a lavish hand at the helm. M-G-M poured $2,400,000 into the latest voyage, refitted the venerable Cotton Blossom with a bight profusion of crisply Technicolored costumes, sets and vistas. The memorable Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II score (Ol' Man River, Make Believe, Why Do I Love You?) is as dependable a mainstay as ever. But never has Show Boat seemed so filled to the scuppers with corn...
When Captain Fisby agrees to accept a couple of native "souvenirs," and they turn out to be two little geisha girls named First Flower and Lotus Blossom, he thinks his career is cooked. But the men of his village, usually appalled at the prospect of hard work, are so charmed by the geishas that they enthusiastically pitch in to build them a proper teahouse. To do so, it is necessary to scrounge and improvise, and soon Captain Fisby, who is weak on Army directives but strong on old-fashioned initiative, finds himself supervising a complex business combine. His once-sleepy...
...Actor Marais, playing the moody, princely rake, sizes her up as a pushover, deigns to use her for passing pleasure. They learn each other's true motives in an intimate sequence brimming with Gallic candor and style, and as they manage to reconcile their conflicting emotions, their scenes blossom into a gauzy mood of idyllic romance...
...Reformers," says Santayana, "blame the world for being themselves ill fitted to live in it." Only the Rational Order, or life of reason, introduces intelligent pruning and brings the buds to blossom. Operating judiciously "in the light or shadow of the past and the possible," reason fosters the only kind of precarious progress there is-"perfections after our own kind in our own time and place." Says Santayana: "The circle neither envies the square nor wishes to devour it." "Live and let live" is his implied credo...
...actresses who seem to have captured the frothy spirit are Joanne Gilbert as the mischievous Puck and Martha Eyre in the minor role of Pease blossom. Connaught O'Connell is captivating as Helena, and whether pursuing or being pursued by various Athenians, she acts with equal gusto...