Word: misses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...startled Sterling, Colo. The assistant principal of the high school invited her to a school dance at the Elks Club and promptly got holy Ned. The board of education demanded that he break the date, explained that it "didn't think the invitation . . . was quite the thing." Miss Gray, who has been holding still for some time now, in retirement on a ranch, took it gracefully. "If the people of Sterling don't want to be educated," she said, "it's all right with me." The assistant principal wound up by taking her anyway...
There was also high praise for 19-year-old Jean Simmons' Ophelia. Wrote the New Statesman's thoughtful William Whitebait: "Ophelia comes out with a clarity I have never before known on the stage or, for that matter, the text . . . Miss Simmons' mad scenes (she acts them very simply; her beauty does the rest) are the most affecting I have known; in fact, this is the first time, in my experience, that the shock of Ophelia gone mad has moved and not embarrassed...
Joan isn't much good at keeping her mind on her business; whenever a man stands upwind from her, she tends to go buttery-eyed (a trick for which Miss Caulfield has a pretty talent). Veronica has to be coldhearted enough for both of them; but as it turns out, she is vulnerable, too. Both fall for an earnest, shabby oaf (well played by George Reeves) who dreams of modernizing his community with a power plant. Both help raise the money which will make his dream come true. And both plan to make off with it, love...
...hard to recreate a bygone period in a foreign studio and to achieve much lyrical eloquence when silence is almost as taboo on the screen as in radio. The role of the heroine would have been an ideal light workout for an actress of great sensitivity: Garbo, for instance. Miss Fontaine is intelligent and industrious, but she is never a magician. Since nearly 90% of the picture depends on her, the whole show suffers accordingly. Louis Jourdan is more convincing in his easier role. Letter is a good try, but a disappointing film...
Albert Guerard certainly takes such care in his story entitled "Miss Prindle's Lover." It is the closest approach to old-style narrative in the magazine, and whether you happen to be interested or not--I was--in a story about the peculiar attraction a middle-aged spinster has for a young man, it is impossible to deny that Guerard has drawn convincing characters and taken them through a series of comprehensible events, rare virtues indeed...