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Time for Elizabeth (by Norman Krasna & Groucho Marx; produced by Russell Lewis & Howard Young) was a tin-and-cardboard comedy which was meant to be box office but turned out to be a bore. Closing after eight performances, it showed little of what its collaborators are best known for: Groucho Marx, as playwright, lacked the divine madness he displays as a performer; while the smooth Krasnagraph that reeled off Dear Ruth and John Loves Mary badly needed oiling...
...best comedy is the comedy of situation or of memorable character. Any playwright who attempts to pass off a motley collection of gags and giggles as a "light dramatic composition" is treading on thin ice, and Norman Krasna has not escaped the usual pitfalls in his latest effort to repeat the popularity of "Dear Ruth." His plot--the customary returning-soldier triangle--meets the traditional requirements, but a slow and uneven development robs it of most of its potentialities...
Dear Ruth (by Norman Krasna; produced by Joseph M. Hyman and Bernard Hart) is a sure-fire popular comedy about the young, exploiting an amusing (if familiar) situation for comedy, farce and romance alike, and framing it in the fat plush of family life. A teen-age brat named Miriam Wilkins (Lenore Lonergan) has long and lushly corresponded-in the name of her older sister Ruth-with a young overseas flyer. Suddenly the flyer (John Dall) turns up, all set to marry Ruth-who is all set to marry someone else. To soften the blow, Ruth (Virginia Gilmore) agrees...
Lean, sad Director Clair made his first English picture with Grade A Playwright Robert Sherwood. It was The Ghost Goes West, a satiric fantasy about an amorous Scottish shade, and it was a ten-strike (TIME, Jan. 20, 1936). But The Flame of New Orleans, scripted by Norman Krasna (Bachelor Mother), is no equal of The Ghost. Occasional touches-word of La Dietrich's honky-tonk past conveyed from ear to ear at her introduction to New Orleans' society, a wedding gown floating mysteriously down the Mississippi, shutters opening drowsily on the quay at dawn-give proof that...
...Director Kanin and Screenwriter Norman Krasna in collaboration produced an excellent script, but Krasna got so jittery in the process that he says he "began looking longingly at a river I know...