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...Witness Cedric R. Worth turned out to be a big, balding, 49-year-old bureaucrat in pince-nez glasses, a onetime Hollywood scripter, wartime Navy commander, and now a $10,305-a-year special assistant to the Under Secretary of the Navy. Chairman Vinson plunged right...
...gets her man but loses her fortune: the elder Montdores strike her from their will and seem to plummet, from shock, into old age. Author Mitford is no woman to let her story stop there. With 80 pages to go, she rushes in scented, scintillating Cousin Cedric, the new heir from Canada, to charm Lady Montdore off the shelf. A face lifting, some rigorous massage and the trick of pronouncing the word "brush" before entering the drawing room (it fixes her smile) convert her Edwardian pomp into a garish girlishness. Cedric completes his round of conquests by capturing Polly...
...Horton, who has played Springtime for Henry perennially (at a profit of about $1,000,000), will give the old comedy a rest in favor of Present Laughter. Some of the other country hands: Helen Hayes (in a tryout of William McCleery's Good Housekeeping), Paul Lukas, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Eva Le Gallienne, Basil Rathbone, Mady Christians, Ann Harding, Elisabeth Bergner, Joan Blondell, Bert Lahr, Kay Francis...
...only principal who seems to enjoy his role, apparently because he really believes in it, is Sir Cedric Hardwicke, as a sniffly, red-nosed King Arthur. The rest of the clanking, top-heavy production has the hollow, dejected air of a joke with its punch line missing...
These situations are naturals for a movie, and Crosby, who plays Crosby--I mean Hank Martin--makes capital of them. He is ably assisted by William Bendix as Sir Sagramore, a sixth century Chester A. Riley, and by Sir Cedric Hardwicke, the constantly harassed King Arthur...