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Moreover, the picture is a Thespian witches' Sabbath. Except when she overuses her eyes in fey moments, Jennifer Jones more than delivers on the promise of her Song of Bernadette. Restrained Joseph Gotten gives the film its needed ballast of sanity. Hilt-deep supporting performances are contributed by Gladys Cooper, Cecil Kellaway, and a brilliant Australian named Ann Richards. She has three-alarm beauty and four-alarm talent, and is the only screen actress since Ingrid Bergman to look wonderful in a shirtwaist...
...Half fey, half folksy, the play is based on the Southern mountaineer (not the Old English) ballad of Barbara Allen. For love of high-stepping young Barbara (Carol Stone), a witch boy in the Great Smokies (Richard Hart) has a Conjur Woman make him human. But he can remain so, the old crone tells him, only if Barbara stays faithful to him for a year after their marriage. On the last night of the year, the community,* at last awake to the boy's origin, compels Barbara to sin. (A rape scene that the censors knocked...
...program came an excited call from a woman in Forest Hills, N.Y. She wanted to know if it was a three-year-old question submitted by David Fey, her son, now Corporal David Fey, in a rest camp after three years' action in the South Pacific...
...most quietly fey and edgy comic strips in the U.S. this week made its second appearance in book form. Barnaby and Mr. O'Malley (Holt; $2) is a 328-page collection of the bland fantasies of 38-year-old Crockett Johnson. Johnson's unorthodox strip first appeared two years ago in New York City's tabloid PM, now draws a host of addicts in 31 U.S. newspapers, including the Baltimore Evening Sun, Philadelphia Record, Chicago Sun, St. Louis Star-Times...
Crazy Like a Fox includes 46 of the fey five-finger exercises with which Humorist Perelman has since tickled the funny bones and ribs of readers of the New Yorker, Saturday Evening Post and other magazines. This crowded showcase displays Perelman's talents as a gagman at their best. But it also reveals the monotony of his formula, which to some readers is as enervating, in its way, as the late Harold Bell Wright...