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...With a Clifton Webb playing the lead and some bright scripters on the job, the picture might have turned into a devastating satire of radio's foolish age. Veteran Colman does well enough in his orotund English style, but the writers fail him almost completely. Basically, they miss the vital point-which Miracle on 34th Street caught so well-that the story's fantastic premise should be played out as if the impossible were really happening. Instead, the film has been pitched on a wobbly note of broad burlesque with overtones of self-conscious whimsy, e.g., the soap...
Other winners are: Betty I. Bandeen, James T. Bonnen 1G, John A. Bradshaw '41 4G, A. George Davis 3G, Gifford B. Doxsee 2G, Joseph Finkelstein 2G, Norton M. Hintz 3G, Eloise Knapp, Clement Moritz 4G, Nancy Nimitz, Clifton J. Phillips 1G, and Bertram L. Woodruff...
...Clifton Webb, Gilbreth is by means as appropriate a part as Belvedere was. Gilbreth, by nature, has certain "lovable" qualities--devotion to his family, generosity--that require of the actor as much folksy as comic skill. More than that, the comedy in Webb's previous assignments was in the person of Belvedere. But "Cheaper by the Dozen" is much more of a situational comedy, where the large family and the antiquated automobile set up the gags. Webb on the whole has far less chance to display his skill as a comedian...
Cheaper by the Dozen (20th Century-Fox] is a movie version of the bestselling based-on-fact book about life with a father of twelve in the 19205. A plotless string of mild, rambling anecdotes, with Clifton ("Belvedere") Webb miscast in the central role, it is not much more fun than leafing through somebody else's family album...
VARSITY BASKETBALL--Major H--Robert R. Bramhall '51, Richard B. Covey '50, Clifton D. Crosby '50, James D. Gabler '51, William M. Hickey '52, Gerald D. Murphy '52, William A. Prior '50, John R. Rockwell '50, Edward B. Smith '51, and John L. Roy, 2d '50, Manager...