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Applications for next year's Radcliffe freshman lass have risen substantially, following a similar trend in the nation's men's colleges, Miss Constance Ballou, Director of Admissions, said yesterday...
...that everyone is really a brick beneath a seemingly loathsome exterior, the result is dreary. In one especially painful scene, Paul Douglas as the mogul, is almost seduced from the business virtues of ruthless efficiency and unbridled avarice that the British evidently find peculiarly American. When a gentle Scottish lass tells him about the beauties of indolence, the mogul seems about to chuck a princely fortune and sign aboard the Scots boat as cabin...
...Americans, out for a shoot in the highlands, happen on a town named Brigadoon. One of them (Gene Kelly) catches fire from a local lass (Cyd Charisse), but when this arson is revealed to the parson, he raises a difficulty. Brigadoon and everyone in it lie under an enchantment. Only one day out of every hundred years can they spend on earth. At midnight the town will disappear until a morning in the year 2054. If the lover stays, he will disappear too. The Americans go sadly back to New York, but after a couple of weeks at the modern...
Laughton's gusty humour has had an amazing durability. His co-star, Maureen O'Hara, might also boast of her consistency throughout the years. Jamaica Inn proves conclusively that she was just as inept in 1939 as she is today. In the role of an Irish lass whose innocence is only overshadowed by her muscle, Miss O'Hara's acting is a pantomime with words...
...credit of current pulp science fiction writers, they realize that fantasy must have some element of reality. And the best kind of reality is sex. Sometimes spatial experiences draw a Venusian lass and the captain of a space ship to a common understanding. Or an eloped couple find bliss on a planet called, ironically enough, Eros...