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...prim New Englander named Wooley (Fredric March) ran afoul of a witch (Veronica Lake) in a hayloft and had her and her supernatural father (Cecil Kellaway) burned alive and buried, for safekeeping, under the roots of an oak. The doomed witch cursed him and his male issue with disaster in love. The curse holds better & better in 1770, 1861, and 1904 (Fredric March, Fredric March and Fredric March). It looks even more propitious when, on a stormy night in 1942, lightning rives the oak and sets father and daughter at liberty once more, as a talkative pair of fumes...
Fredric March, better than holds up his farcical end. Robert Benchley is still Hollywood's most reliable ban vivant, though Cecil Kellaway, as the alcoholic old warlock, gives him unctuous competition. Veronica Lake, with a voice like a hoarse clarinet, makes a bewitching witch, scarcely taller (5 ft. 2 in.) than the broom she hexes. Rene Clair lets Thome Smith have his amiable way much of the time (good line from Witch Lake: "Ever hear of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire? That was our crowd"). But Clair's shrewish fiancée is a malicious...
...Robinson Hall. The judges who will award the decision are: H. H. Blossom, a graduate of the school who is now practicing in Boston; H. V. Hubbard '97, Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning, and chairman of the council of the School of City Planning; and H. J. Kellaway, who is practicing in Boston...