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Between such fixed but aging stars as Irene Dunne, 43, Joan Crawford, 43, Loretta Young, 38, and the swarming clouds of hopeful young starlets, a constellation of new stars is emerging. Among them...
Half Angel (20th Century-Fox) tries to play schizophrenia for belly laughs and proves that psychiatry can be mangled as witlessly in a comedy as in melodrama. Its heroine (Loretta Young) is a primly correct girl whose subconscious, taking possession while she sleeps, turns her into a somnambulant femme fatale with a yen for a stuffy lawyer (Joseph Gotten...
...romance, which frosts over whenever Loretta's conscious mind is in control, is embellished with some embarrassingly precious dialogue. She calls Cotten a frog and wants to kiss his warts away; to him, she is "Princess Felicity" or "knucklehead." Her mental condition leads her to such fey adventures as spending the night in his bedroom (listening to him talk shop) and marrying him while her fiancé's back is turned...
Charity. Their leader, Sister Superior Maria Loretta, had spent 27 uninterrupted years in China's interior; all the others had served at least 18 years, and expected never to see the U.S. again. Their orphanage, hospital and teaching mission were tucked away in mountainous upper Hunan, far out of reach of electric lights and telephones. But not out of reach of Mao Tse-tung...
...Rowel '51, was chosen the best of the plays submitted for judging to Archibald MacLeish, Ernest Hemingway, William Van Lennep, Mary Martin, and Elinor Hughes. But that play is to be produced elsewhere. So the Playwrights Groups chose as their first production the runner-up, "The Bystander," by Loretta J. Valtz, a junior at Radcliffe...