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Standing Room Only (Paramount) warms over the hectic humors of war-crowded Washington. Junior Executive Lee Stevens (Fred MacMurray) comes to Washington to wangle, from New Deal Bigwig Glen Ritchie, a contract to convert a languishing toy factory into an ordnance plant. With him comes fleshly, flashy, proletarian Jane Rogers (Paulette Goddard), who has flirted her way out of the firm's toy donkey department into a secretaryship. First night in Washington the roomless pair huddle miserably under the horse-belly of a Civil War monument...
Next day Mr. MacMurray tackles the Administration. He starts at the tail end of a waiting line which, each time the aspirants move up a chair, ripples like a weary centipede. At last Mr. MacMurray learns that Mr. Ritchie has just gone...
...picture aerates a lot of its staleness with pace, surface wit, some crisp acting. As a henpecked satyr, Roland Young is still the alltime master of twiddle, the fatuous innuendo, the Britannic bleat. Fred MacMurray is an experienced cutup too. But some cinemaddicts may feel that Paulette Goddard is on the brink of overstatement when she exclaims: "Every time I see him I get weak in the knees...
...stale it is. The old sophisticated drawing-room comedy with the self-sufficient woman and the insufficient plot. Once it was Fred MacMurray, now it's Brian Aherne. But Rosalind Russell stays the same. It gets boring, Nick, honest it does...
...Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert, who haven't been around for so long that our Freshman readers may never have heard of them, have come back with a resounding and heartening comedy hit that bodes well for the team in the future...