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Jane Powell (Madame Irma) evinces an erratic but professional competence. Often she speaks with elegance, or at least worldly majesty. But at other times, frequently at crucial points in the script, she lets a sentence or two slip away unemphasized. This may result from justifiable boredom with some of her more portentously extravagant lines...
Miss Robinson is a stenographer in the fanmail room of a large movie studio. In her boredom, she starts corresponding with a Minnesota farmer who has written a fan letter to one of the studio's stars, and whose main problem is that he has a harelip and can rarely make himself understood. Writing in the name of the star, she carries on the correspondence for months: "Dear Sir: As I usually do not answer letters sent to me by fans, since I get (crossed out) receive thousands, I would appreciate your keeping this note confidential . . ." Finally they meet...
Forcefully reiterating his Harper's article of last October, Bettelheim warned that women cannot rely on their husbands to relieve the boredom of "busy-work" in the woman's home role. He urged that a woman have "a challenging, stimulating intellectual life of her own" so that she does not come to blame her husband for the monotony of her life and the resulting feelings of dissatisfaction...
Reginald Parker's direction is superb. His blocking saves the opening scene from being a talky fiasco, and whenever the dialogue falls down, his elaborate bits of play prevent complete boredom. The direction of the seance scene, a musical chairs game in the dark, is particularly effective. But skillful director and eager cast are not enough. Even Stanislavski directing Otis Skinner could not have completely overcome such glaring defects in their material...
...rights, painfully and obviously avoiding the real reason why the name of Ross Barnett is known outside the provincial confines of Mississippi--his violent racism. His audience, perfectly willing to be humored by the opening antics, quickly lost its humor. The professors, who had looked around the theatre in boredom during the Governor's description of Mississippi's laissez-faire economic system, poised their pencils, only to put them down again in disappointment...