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Life Begins at 8:30 (20th Century-Fox) combines the talents of one of Hollywood's funniest script writers, Nunnally Johnson, and one of Broadway's funniest actors, Monty Woolley. Unfortunately it also is based on one of last season's dullest Broadway plays, Yesterday's Magic. The result is not worthy of Johnson & Woolley, but they contrive to make the film fairly entertaining...
...Plain Dealer (Knopf; $4), by its longtime chief editorial writer, 65-year-old Archer H. Shaw. A labored labor of love, it added valuable history of one of the most famed U.S. newspapers. Like most such histories-and like the Plain Dealer itself-Author Shaw's book is dullest in the most recent decades...
...Moonlight in Hawaii" is nobody's picture--not the producer's, not the director's, not the actor's, not the gag-writers'; nobody's, not even the garbage man's. It's one of the cheapest, slowest, corniest, dullest pictures ever to come out of Hollywood. That's going...
...this everything, M.G.M.'s Lady Be Good has salvaged only two of the Gershwin melodies: the title song and Fascinating Rhythm. Around these still glittering butterfly relics three studio scripters (Jack McGowan, Kay Van Riper, John McClain) have spun one of the longest, dullest plots in many a cinema season...
Ferrero's chief talent as a historian has always been to make the dullest periods of history as fresh as a newspaper. The Reconstruction of Europe is in part a lively resuscitation of the Congress of Vienna from corridors, back rooms and boudoirs. The Austrian secret police dogged everybody at the Congress where Emperor Francis I played host, and their reports, meticulously preserved by the Habsburgs whose motto was never to throw a piece of paper away, have a narrative verve and unvarnished realism which are a Ferrero specialty...