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Peggy (Universal-International) is a great waste of costly Technicolor and able actors. It sacrifices such good comedy performers as Charles Coburn and Charlotte Greenwood to a humorless, embarrassingly juvenile farce about the efforts of a professor's daughter (Diana Lynn) to escape coronation as queen of the Rose Bowl. For colored-postcard enthusiasts who sit it out, the last reel offers some views of Pasadena's Tournament of Roses...
...Friend informed me after night's performance of "Yes M'Lord" that the play was humorless and dull. Therefore I enter the reservation that those who aren't addicted to English drawing room comedies won't like this one. The rest of this review is solely for those fortunate...
East Side, West Side (MGM) is a humorless, slightly awed look at Manhattan's gossip-column set as it might be presented to daytime radio fans. The picture makes a showcase for the specialties of its four glittering stars: Ava Gardner's blissfully pneumatic figure, James Mason's decadent inflections, some high-toned suffering by Barbara Stanwyck and the impulsive histrionics of Van Heflin...
...humor and sensitivity. Evans plays an austere and reserved master of the Classics in an English public school--"the Himmel of the Lower Fifth," as he is characterized by the headmaster. The play concerns the gradual eliciting of his emotions toward himself, his work and his promiscuous wife. A humorless man, he had been unable, throughout his career, to maintain the delicate balance between discipline and affability--taking refuge in a severity which was lightened only by dry puns. The climax occurs when a member of his alienated Greek class presents him, on his retirement, with a copy of Browning...
Dickens' friends always shared his grief at such moments, adding their salt pints to his sea of tears. Crusty Thomas Carlyle and Irish Rebel Daniel O'Connell both tottered about, racked with sobs, when Little Nell's knell tolled. Humorless...