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...with the over-all focus. For as the horror of the situation itself fades into a war movie cliche--complete with goose-stepping, bombing and all the rest of it--as the beauty of Anne Frank's character dissolves into naughty cuteness, we are left with eight people who flirt, fight, and fret in a disappointingly usual way. The play managed, without ever seeming to strain, to suggest how sustained tension and continuous confinement would affect them, while the film injects these changes artificially...
Except for the usual contributions of two or three poets who flirt with the editors only when deadline nears, the issue reveals the vanity, the affectation, and finally, the vacancy in talent of those...
Actor Ritchard plays an eternal playboy, a gleeful, middle-aged enfant terrible, an international charmer and flirt. When he descends on the correct San Francisco world in which his daughter lives with her mother and stepfather, and his own glamour puts the girl's serious young ranchman fiancé in the shade, the wedding bells begin to grow faint. For father's ideal of enjoying every real or sham pleasure goes to daughter's head like champagne. Simultaneously, the blood rushes to the ranchman's, and he denounces father's wastrel charms in ringing tones...
...Radcliffe freshmen: "Better not be engaged until twenty-two. You are then more competent to judge the honesty and falsity of man. Nature has thrown a wall of maidenly modesty around you. Preserve that and not let your affection be trifled with while too young by any youthful flirt who is in search of hearts to conquer...
Couple Two is the uneasy union of a shy young scientist (Jeffrey Hunter) and the sort of neighborhood flirt (Patricia Owens) who likes to bring out the beast in men, and then feed it peanuts...