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...This Is New York. A deft version of Ring Lardner's The Big Town, with radio's Henry Morgan (TIME...
...This Is New York. A deftly daffy screen version of Ring Lardner's The Big Town, with radio's Henry Morgan (TIME...
Here Comes Morgan. In May 1947, taciturn, brilliant Stanley Kramer, who had almost made it as a movie producer when war came, and squat, shrewd George Glass, known as "an honest pressagent," took options on 30 of the late Ring Lardner's stories. They picked The Big Town for their first picture, changed the title and went looking for a star to fit the script. What comedian could handle Lardner's light touch without seeming all thumbs? Screen Plays eyed radio's Henry Morgan. After reading the story and a 100-page "treatment," Morgan said...
...This Is New York (Screen Plays; Enterprise; United Artists) is worth its birth pangs. Though not as funny as Lardner's original, it is still a nice little farce-comedy of contrasting manners...
...essays Virginia Woolf approached writers of the past and present with the same questions in mind. She wrote about Jane Austen's conscience, Defoe's advanced attitude toward women and Sterne's troublesome ghost. She probed the minds of writers as different as Montaigne and Ring Lardner-and brought them all to quickened life; she made them seem contemporaries...