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...story, Effie labors mightily and brings forth a creature known as "Little Mouse." After 214 pages of dim wittiness and wearisomely cute misspelling, the author's labors come to the same thing...
...scientists and a U.S. Air Force crew, quartered for a research project at the North Pole with all the comforts of home, including a comely, sweater-bulging secretary (Margaret Sheridan). Except for the Air Force captain (Kenneth Tobey), whom the script had fated for her, the men treat this cute tomato with vegetable-like indifference. They keep their minds on science, though not very scientifically, e.g., when the grounded saucer's radioactivity sets their Geiger counter sputtering, they walk calmly into the radioactive field...
...uneven but fresh TV sketches. The best of them showed Morgan suffering through a friend's home movies and Morgan as a TV newscaster being confused by four wall clocks (for Paris, London, Algiers and McKeesport). The commercials, animated cartoons for Campbell's Soup, are self-consciously cute...
...this high standard set by even the bit players is the Old Vie experience of many of them. John Howard Davies, as "the boy who asked for more," is far, far removed from our Dean Stock-wells. The difference is that he is an actor, not merely a cute but insipid child. Davies' performance is beautifully modulated to show Oliver's timid yet occasionally bold nature...
There are some good lines and scenes. But Springtime for Henry is at best a small, ironic British farce. It can't avoid being thin, but as now performed it also seems too cute. Where it should be as dry as a Martini, it is often as whimsical as A. A. Milne. Henry, who began as a mere part for Horton, is by now a part of him. He manages it well in a broad, mugging way; but it is not always a part of Springtime for Henry...