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Untopical like most revues, themeless like some, and extravagant like all that hope to attain box-office success, "Three to Make Ready" contains some highly amusing dancing by Ray Bolger, plushy but tasteful sets by Donald Oenslager, bright music by Morgan Lewis, and a few interesting but mostly pointless skits, directed by Margaret Webster...
...Pointless. In Newark, 125,000 red ration points were stolen the night before all red points were declared invalid...
...movies because there's enough sadness in the world already." Striving bravely, in the best tradition of air-corps romance, to maintain a gallant gaiety in the face of impending doom, the picture fails completely to realize that its tears are obviously glycerine, its poignance pointless, and its gloom only a studio fog obscuring what should be a wholly delightful comedy...
...Britain. China); each of the presidents should take his turn with the gavel, and together they should control all the business of the conference. The delegation heads who made up the steering committee heard this proposal with successive disbelief, dismay, anger: it seemed to them to be a deliberate, pointless affront to Stettinius and international custom...
...Ghost on the Roof" (TIME, March 5) was pointless because no responsible section of U.S. opinion favors sanctions against Russia, and short of drastic sanctions we are unlikely to modify Soviet policy...