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...year-old She Stoops to Conquer displayed, for all its years, surprising bounce and some still unwrinkled humor. The story of a young man who is led to mistake a private house for an inn and a gentleman's daughter for a barmaid, it is not least a classic for possessing a classic farce plot. At times less play than horseplay, She Stoops is happily without meaning and forever on the move...
...second glance this impression seems false. Little Miss Goudge (rhymes with Scrooge) is one of the most prolific and popular novelists now wielding a pen; with the help of the Literary Guild, her Green Dolphin Street (1944) and Pilgrim's Inn (1948) sold more than a million copies each. Yet in a deeper sense Novelist Goudge is just what she seems: a middle-aged Victorian lady with genteel literary inclinations...
...Just the usual hoke," says an actor in "Holiday Inn" playing a Hollywood director. His comment, applied to the entire motion picture, in almost, but not quite, in order. The "hoke" in "Holiday Inn" is the old-fashioned, pollyannish product that Hollywood continues to turn out year after year. The only qualification that must be made is that "Holiday Inn" has a lot more to offer...
...instance, the tap dancing of Fred Astaire, who clicks his heels and tocs through several excellent routines. In the best of these he dances better while playing a drunk than most of the hoofers could cold sober. Throughout "Holiday Inn" Astaire plays a foil for Bing Crosby. In this film, a Paramount re-release, Crosby's voice and hairline are still intact. He sings an excellent selection of Irving Berlin tunes--"Easter Parade," "Be Careful, It's My Heart," and, of course "White Christmas." The result is like a greeting card: it has no art and no subtlety...
Weakness in the lower positions proved the undoing of the B team, as the Blues swept both the fourth and fifth matches in straight sets. This was the third consecutive defeat for the B team, which had previously lost to the Union Boat Club and Lincoln's Inn by scores...