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...Moonlight Bay (Warner) is a folksy period musical somewhat casually adapted from the Penrod stories of Booth Tarkington, whose Seventeen is currently a Broadway musicomedy. Set in an innocent, brightly colored Indiana during World War I, the picture is strictly summer-weight material-thin, porous and not at all wrinkleproof, but comfortably loose and light...
University Theater (Sun. 2 p.m., NBC). Booth Tarkington's Penrod...
Considered Opinion. The early Runyon shows talents of two kinds: he might have written boys' stories with the charm and freshness of Booth Tarkington's Penrod books, or he might have become a Lardner-like realist in vernacular. Instead, he mastered a highly successful formula...
Indecent & Undisciplined. Actually, says Bell, Americans have very little to be complacent about. The most accurate mirror of their civilization, he contends, is the Henry Aldrich radio skit; the typical American boy is no longer Tom Sawyer or Penrod, but Henry Aldrich himself. He is "almost indecently adolescent . . . undisciplined, self-assertive, bewildered by life
...those squalid Latin American tourist villages where hot sex and heavy gunfire are hourly occurrences in the public square; a bandleader and his wife sweating to live up to the lurid-and contradictory-bulletins the columnists issue about them; an old-fashioned Friday afternoon dancing class, in which the Penrod motif loses out to the pretty-pretty. There are the usual-all-too-usual-dance numbers in Lend an Ear, and some pleasantly forgettable tunes...