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...dialogue. "Old Acquaintance" has more of it than Hollywood can usually scrape together, though 'ess than "Now, Voyager," for example. Most of this dialogue concerns the two loves of Bette, who here plays Katherine Marlowe, a modern and conscientious novelist. The first is the husband of her best friend (Miriam Hopkins) who "turns out her novels on a sausage grinder." The second is a dapper young man (Gig Young) whom she loses to Miriam's daughter. This latter part of the plot is weakened by its dependence on Gig Young's looks instead of on a character, and throughout...
...Acquaintance (Warner) is another of those psychological joy rides for the talents of Bette Davis. But this time Miss Davis leaves the abnormal psychology to Miriam Hopkins and portrays a novelist who never gets around to marrying. She writes well but unprofitably. Her friend (Miriam Hopkins) is a mental charlotte russe who, out of subconscious jealousy of Novelist Davis, froths out a shelfload of bestsellers. As Author Hopkins' royalties soar, her husband (John Loder) sinks more & more to the status of a cute trick to have around the house. He falls in love with Miss Davis, who refuses...
Starting with Tallulah Bankhead in the leading role of Sabina, then continuing with Miriam Hopkins on its long Broadway run, the play now stars Gladys George. Not as well fitted for the part as her predecessors, Gladys George has trouble reaching their standard of acting. She seems a little tired in a part that requires boundless energy, but on the whole, her performance is adequate, not outstanding...
...motives in writing it, a desire to free himself from a mother fixation, Shorer demonstrates that Lawrence as a novelist could never obtain the complete objectivity necessary for an author indulging in autobiographical material. It is a shrewdly written reconsideration, albeit a trifle obvious in dealing with the Miriam-Paul relationship...
Fortunately Keep 'Em Laughing isn't all headliners. Jack Cole and his dancers deftly combine Oriental gestures with jazz rhythms; Miriam La Velle does exciting acrobatic dances. But by far the best thing in the show is an animal act called The Bricklayers. The delightful trained dogs who dump loads of bricks, clamber up & down ladders, act tight, sham dead, ride around on scooters and perform on the trapeze deserve the rare compliment that they might have been invented by Walt Disney...