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Sandwiched between this phrenetic activity are some interesting shots of naval boot training, of a submarine crossing the Pacific and of Corinne Calvert. These may be a relief after concentrated doses of Lewis' nasal voice, but they kill off whatever slight continuity there might have been otherwise...
...Hyde White's hypocritical headmaster seem fuller than before, and are skillfully played. Most to its credit, the film gets up close to a superb piece of acting by Michael Redgrave, who makes the schoolmaster's inner suffering as vivid as his aging stoop, frigid correctness and nasal drone...
...portrayal of a woman who has a fairly rational enjoyment of life. But Lenormand is out to get her, too. Miss Ford is a fine actress, and it is not her fault that the sincerity of her performance forces her to whine like a whipped cur with a post-nasal drip for long stretches toward the end of the play...
...last week, a large part of the usually sane and solid British public had surrendered to the most unblushing piece of pseudo-nursery nonsense since 1939's Three Little Fishies. I Taut I Taw a Puddy-Tat, a baby-talk duet between a nasal, lisping little bird named Tweetie Pie and a gravel-voiced cat named Sylvester (both parts sung by Radio Actor Mel Blanc), had passed the quarter-million mark in record sales, stood second on the British hit parade...
...faces which seem to have been flattened (actually, growth is arrested). Besides these constants, other defects are found so often in mongolism that Dr. Ingalls got a vital clue from analyzing them: the ears are usually malformed, there may be opacities in the eye lens, one of the nasal bones is usually absent, and the middle phalanx of the fifth finger is generally stunted. The clue: all these signs affect tissues which develop at about the eighth week of fetal life. In mongolism victims, the body structures formed earlier than that are usually normal, said Dr. Ingalls...