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...Rough" is the term usually applied to productions like Pl Eta's "A Doctor in Spite of Himself." Rough, because what starts out to be Mollere ends up as a cross between Olsen and Johnson and Harriet Beecher Stowe. This is a blatantly amateurish production, whose cast decided about halfway through the first act that it would be more fun to ham Mollere than to perform...
Radcliffe girls can learn to make splints and tie bandages in a first aid course which will start in two weeks at the Annex under Miss Harriet Clark, chief gym instructor...
...Harriet Craig (Columbia). George Kelly's Craig's Wife, a play about a woman whose passion for tidiness destroyed her marriage, was a 1926 Pulitzer Prizewinner. In 1936, as a movie starring Rosalind Russell and John Boles, it was rated one of the better pictures of the year. Hollywood's current version is not so successful...
Wearing a mannish hairdo, Joan Crawford plays the overneat Harriet Craig with sexy emphasis. As her thoroughly housebroken husband, Wendell Corey is careful never to drop ashes on the rugs, sit on the arm of the sofa, or put a damp glass on an end table. Besides riding herd on Corey, Joan bullies her servants, snipes at the inoffensive widow next door, tries to break up K.T. Stevens' romance with William Bishop. Her ineffectual villain'es come to a head when, to prevent her husband's going alone to Japan on business, she defames...
...Craig's Wife, Playwright Kelly wrote of a woman who loved her home more than her husband and was willing to risk involving him in a murder because speaking out might threaten her home. Scripters Anne Froelick and James Gunn have dropped the murder from the plot of Harriet Craig. They concern themselves instead with a jealous woman who tries to dominate her husband. This may be the reason the movie loses headway early and becomes a tiresome wait for the worm to turn and give Joan Crawford her comeuppance...