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Stafford (Boston Adventure) command a cosmopolitan confidence that makes a lot of their male counterparts read like sentimental softies raised on Louisa May Alcott. Since the new school is now threatened with overcrowding, it is a relief to find New York-born Elizabeth Pollet enrolling elsewhere with her first novel. A Family Romance has its faults, but they are not those of the self-assurance school; at its best, A Family Romance achieves a rare, fresh tone of youthful warmth and wonder...
...Louisa (Universal-International) tries to find hilarity in the idea of a grandmother falling in love. When Spring Byington moves in with her son's family, she snaps at the maid (Connie Gilchrist), interferes with daughter-in-law Ruth Hussey's raising of the children, and quarrels about food prices with Grocer Edmund Gwenn. Appealed to by her son (Ronald Reagan), she sets out to make amends and, from her apology to Widower Gwenn, a romance blossoms. Her son's employer, Bachelor Charles Coburn, promptly appears as a blustering rival for her affections. All this foolishness allows...
Though most of Louisa's arch humor misfires, seasoned Actors Gwenn and Coburn get some entertaining slapstick into their schoolboy posturings. Ronald Reagan and Ruth Hussey have little to do except exclaim about the way grandma is carrying on. As the daughter of the family, involved in a dreary little romance of her own, Piper Laurie plays a 17-year-old who seems to have matured every way except mentally...
...much more of a problem play for directors than for theatergoers. In general, the current production is weak. But the two crucial scenes between Mrs. Warren and her daughter ring out with a forthright vigor and vibrancy; and Mrs. Warren (Estelle Winwood) is played with decided style, her daughter (Louisa Horton) with fine sobriety. Twice Mrs. Warren's Profession booms like a great-bellied old clock, even if it otherwise runs painfully slow and even stops dead...
...Harvard Law School's top expert on the U.S. Constitution; genial, snow-haired Arnold Lucius Gesell, 70, pertinacious chronicler of child behavior (Infant and Child in the Culture of Today, etc.), former director of Yale's Clinic of Child Development; shy, spinsterish Cornelia Meigs, 65, biographer of Louisa May Alcott (Invincible Louisa) and professor of English composition at Bryn Mawr; Columbia Mathematician Edward Kasner (Mathematics and the Imagination), one of the world's top geometers...