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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...East Lansing, Mich, is a little community called Fertile Valley. It is so called not for its rich orchards or ripe vineyards (it hasn't any) but for its big crop of babies. (Latest count: 800, with 288 on the way.) Fertile Valley is Michigan State College's "vet village," a collection of apartments, trailers and prefabs that is as squat and ugly as dozens of other emergency campus camps from the state of Washington to Florida...
Playwright Deval's not unprecedented suggestion that moral values need not be the same for saints & sinners might have helped his play if it weren't so generally past helping. It is partly a mess because it hasn't a shred of self-respect. It trifles shamelessly with its material, trying to be dramatic one moment and comic the next. Worse still, it purveys some of its sex for leers...
Sinatra, as usual, is a shy type who fails to get the girl; he not only sings with great effectiveness (best new song: Time After Time), but performs naturally and unaffectedly. Durante, as a high-school janitor, hasn't much to do beyond proving, without any strain, that he is one of the most likable entertainers in the business. Miss Grayson, prettier and more animated than ever, warbles an aria from Lakmé like an eisteddfod of thrushes, and does even better by Mozart's Lá Ci Darem la Mano, in which she is supported by Sinatra...
...older, has delivered the same two-beat jazz over half the U.S., in London, Paris, Berlin and Moscow. With his pals, including Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton and Zutty Singleton, he has played it on nearly 100 records. Experts have named him on their all-star bands. But he hasn't made a fortune...
...their 18-acre farm near Greenwich, Conn. There Gene Holman putters around in his garden, trapshoots from his terrace, or has whiskey &water in his trophy house under the stuffed heads of the game that he has shot. He cares so little for night life that he hasn't been in a Manhattan nightclub for two years, says: "I'm the kind of fellow who needs eight hours sleep a night...