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Director Henry Koster has told this gentle, humorous story with taste and a light touch. Best comedy bit: as the two nuns whiz through Manhattan in a borrowed jeep, Sister Margaret, the superbly efficient driver, explains to Sister Scholastica : "You'll notice, Sister, that I must signal to make a turn. It is the law." So saying, she makes a snappy U turn smack in the middle of Fifth Avenue, and parks on the curb in front of St. Patrick's Cathedral...
...Vaughan to be alone," complained the old Sage. "I've got Moravee to do. These games Koster lot of study time." just then the straius of "Duin What Comes Naturally," Rose from the street. "Meyer may," the ancient scholar chortled, "Howe Rich that song is. Music Hathaway with if, all right...
...sailing koster Erma, with 16 war weary Estonians (seven men, five women, four little children) aboard, made her way from the Swedish coast to the U.S. through the seam-starting seas of the winter Atlantic...
...sailing koster was hardly bigger than a lifeboat; she seemed even smaller when she left the Swedish coast and beat out into the foul weather and seam-starting seas of the Skagerrak. The 16 Estonian refugees-seven men, five women, four little children-who had wedged themselves into the Erma's tiny cabin had no visas, no charts of the Atlantic, no food but potatoes, cereal, bread and canned fish. But they did not complain. After years of war and wandering, they were going to America...
...sheer sentiment he is probably no match for pudgy, high-voiced George Cukor (Camille, Holiday). For action pictures he is topped by John Ford (Hurricane), or Victor Fleming (Captains Courageous, Test Pilot). For capitalizing girlish sweetness at the box office, he is certainly no rival to Viennese Henry Koster, imported by Universal two years ago, to whom Deanna Durbin and Danielle Darrieux owe a large part of their current popularity. For urbane, continental sophistication, he is outclassed by Ernst Lubitsch, who last week announced that he would henceforth produce his own pictures, backed by Myron Selznick, Producer David Selznick...