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...prize-winning novel for which Mr. Mayer gouged himself is Author Goudge's 13th. It lacks the sterner virtues of good literature, but it is tasty as a marshmallow, and practically written in Technicolor. Its setting swings between Britain's romantic Channel Islands and New Zealand, from 1830 to 1900. Its atmosphere is one of gentle domesticity, flavored with salty thrills of sea journeys and pioneering among the Maoris at the world's bottom...
...mother telling me why my father and she came to America, my high-school graduation, the first time I saw a cow, the first year we could afford a vacation, the crib at Camp Surprise Lake after the crowded polluted Coney Island waters, hikes in the fall, weenie and marshmallow roasts, the first time I voted, my first date and the slap in the face I got instead of the kiss I attempted, the El going down, streets being widened to let the sun in, new tenements replacing the old slums, the crowd applauding the time I came through with...
Olivia de Havilland possesses all the personal charm of a marshmallow which can also cook. She also has distinct limitations as a comedienne, not much helped when she has to sob about Sonny Tufts: "He's just like a great big long-eared dog." Cinemactor Tufts develops a rich comic realism. His conventional pinstripes and orgiastic ties, his scuffed luggage, his interviews with various Washington bureaucratic heavies are bright enough bits of authenticity to delight any director. Agnes Moorehead, under Dudley Nichols' direction, turns in a portrait of a Washington wolverine which is a blend of comic-strip...
Here you will see a Pekinese pagoda made of fresh and crackly peanut brittle -there a snow-white marshmallow igloo -there a toothsome pink nougat in the Florentine manner, rich and delicious with embedded nuts. Yonder rears a clean pocket-size replica of heraldic Warwick Castle-yonder drowses a nausey old nance. . . . And there a hot little hacienda, a regular enchilada conqueso with a roof made of rich red tomato sauce, barely lifts her long-lashed lavender shades on the soul of old Spanish days...
Claudia (TIME, Feb. 24). Agreeable women's-magazine marshmallow about a young bride's coming...