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...circumstances, vitality and unpretentiousness get a chance to exert themselves. The result is a nice, brisk, intelligent little B-plus melodrama, far more real and entertaining than the general run. Chief credits go to Players Dennis O'Keefe, Wally Ford and Alfred Ryder (Broadway's blooming June Lockhart is also present), to Writer John C. Higgins and Director Anthony Mann...
Some of Winston Churchill's wartime speeches were done into Basic English, recalled Author Bruce Lockhart in London's Sunday Times. But the Government's Basic Anglicizer went down before the "blood, sweat, and tears" phrase. "All that Basic English could produce," reported Lockhart, "was 'blood, body water, and eyewash...
...Herbert; produced by Barnard Straus) was kept from becoming a minor Broadway debacle through a Broadway debut. Day after the opening of this knickknack by the author of Kiss and Tell, a shower of glittering adjectives ("captivating," "enchanting," "beguiling") descended on gay, winsome, 22-year-old blonde Ingenue June Lockhart (daughter of stage & screen's Gene and Kathleen Lockhart). Already nicely launched in Hollywood (All This and Heaven Too, Meet Me in St. Louis'), June is pretty certainly Broadway's young thing of the year...
...extra glow that the audience carries away from this amusing, if non-aisle-rolling comedy. can be laid directly at the feet of Miss June Lockhart. She creates a young lady that every male member of the audience would like to meet even if she did not do a genicel strip-tease under the precarious shield of a large beach robe. Miss Lockhart is a compoient actress, but there is a persistent impression that her success resis largely on the suspicion that she herself in just the kind of young lady she portrays...
Cynthia (MGM) is a timid smalltown girl (Elizabeth Taylor) in distress. Born delicate, she is kept sickly by her own unhappiness, her frustrated, overanxious parents (George Murphy, Mary Astor) and her pompous doctor-uncle (Gene Lockhart), who bullies the whole family. Music (S. Z. Sakall) and Young Love (James Lydon) arouse in Cynthia a desire to live-and to live like other girls...