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...Most Cheerful . . ." The 42 lucky, shipwrecked seamen left in the hotel got almost too much attention. An average of two first-aiders hovered over each; extra workers entertained them with cards and checkers, plied them with magazines, cigarets, candy. Miss Loretta Besa, formerly of Santiago, Chile, now a New Englander, was called in to interpret the sailors' Spanish. She took down a letter from a Puerto Rican to his wife: "Dear Wife, I am O.K. Everything is about the same." One sailor refused to eat until he found out the food was free. All his money went down with...
...subsequent productions. But judged by its cofeature, "Bed Time Story" rates as an above average comedy. Frederick March, in the role of Lucius Drake, a Broadway playwright, gives a well-rounded performance that pleases everyone except Jane, the first lady of his public and private life. Jane, played by Loretta Young, can't stand being double-crossed for her own good, divorces Lucius, and marries a banker. The highlight of the picture concerns Lucius' efforts at appeasement, in which he sends everything from plumbers to chicken dinners to his recalcitrant ex. When all his efforts go for naught...
...Loretta Young was chosen by Columbia seniors as their favorite raid-shelter companion...
...Life (Columbia) is unfair to luscious Loretta Young. It requires her to be "a bundle of muscles and a smile." Soft-voiced, convent-schooled Miss Young, now 28 and a veteran cinemactress, can supply the smile but not the muscles...
Cast as Europe's ace ballerina (one Lina Varsavina), Loretta limps bravely through one dying-swan triumph after another. She neither looks, acts nor walks like a ballerina, but in sequences which permit her to be more or less herself she performs ably...