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This new film version has been directed by Peter Sellers. The star is Peter Sellers as well. A little slow, but fey and funny, it has his special touch...
...Pont company reported that now it always looks for shows that are not "sad and distressful,'' since experience had taught them that listener reaction was more favorable to fey shows like Harvey than to such other Du Pont productions as Ethan Frome and Hamlet, Prince of Denmark...
...into a container of water that is very small indeed. The Glass children, moreover, are brave, clean, reverent, and overwhelmingly lovable. Yet they never become the seven deadly siblings (at least they are never all deadly at the same time). The Irish strain makes them formidably talkative and occasionally fey. The Jewish strain lends family warmth as well as a talent for Talmudic brooding. The vaudeville heritage provides theatricality...
...from overlings either, as Critic Alexander Woollcott. his boss when Kauf man was on the drama desk of the New York Times, reported with asperity. "I can testify," said Woollcott. '"that he was always careful to treat me like dirt." Folding Tens. In his plays he could be fey and even sentimental, as in Yon Can't Take It With Yon, the saga of the lovably eccentric Vanderhofs, and he could turn out straight living-room drama, as in Dinner at Eight (with Edna Ferber...
...Only Child, by Frank O'Connor. Born in a Cork slum, the author writes with cheerful clarity of his pitiable boyhood and his fey, gallant mother...