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Provocative, unusual, but often unsatisfying, The Skin of Our Teeth dolls up its theme rather than dramatizes it. The fourth dimension somehow stays apart from the other three. Hocus-pocus and moral never quite blend. But the hocus-pocus-with superbly vivacious Actress Bankhead handing most of it out-is often extremely funny. "I hate this play," she suddenly confides. "That's the worst line I've ever had to say on any stage," she complains wearily; but she never spoke one better...
...enough was the housewife's normal milk problem: how to get a bottle of good milk cheap despite a hocus-pocus of trade names, grades and delivery methods. Much worse is the problem now threatening: how to get milk...
...CASE OF THE DROWNING DUCK- Erle Stanley Gardner-Morrow ($2). Perry Mason, hired to investigate an 18-year-old California murder mystery, saves a likable youngster from the results of his hocus-pocus with detergents, runs a crook to earth, and solves two contemporary poisonings. Enough plot and action for two novels...
...Coach Alonzo Stiner and his Northwest farmers were not the least bit awed by Wallace Wade's Blue Devils. With Don Durdan, a left-handed right halfback, and Bob Dethman, a right-handed left halfback, carrying out clever hocus-pocus despite a drizzling rain, they fooled the Devils, scored the biggest upset since Columbia tripped Stanford in 1934. Score...
Take four shop-talking doctors, a renegade artist with revolutionary ideas of morality, two more, less brilliant, medicos, and a very beautiful woman. Throw in a smattering of medical hokus-pocus, a cure for tuberculosis, two cases of that disease, and a love affair. Now you have some of the ingredients of George Bernard Shaw's merry play which Katharine Cornell has brought to Boston. One of the four doctors has the new cure, and the love affair. The two cases of the disease are given to the fifth doctor and the artist. The dilemma is this; Should the doctor...