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...year-old play about "the boy who would not grow up," with its flights of fancy and its flights through the window, is made to order for the animated cartoon. It is full of "pretend" and all such "various tomfool things" as pixies, pirates, Indians and mermaids, who romp among the grottoes, glades, coves and lagoons of the magical isle of Never Land...
Castle in the Air (Associated British Pathé; Stratford Pictures Corp.) is the pleasant sort of camera romp that the British do so frequently and so well. The action takes place in an ancient, crumbling Scottish edifice that is "held up only by the ivy." Among its occupants: the impoverished 19th Earl of Locharne (David Tomlinson), who has lost just about everything but his sense of humor; an eccentric, kilt-clad dame (Margaret Rutherford), who is bent on establishing the earl as the rightful sovereign of Scotland; a National Coal Board man (Brian Oulton), who is assigned to commandeer...
...Time for Flowers (Mort Briskin; RKO Radio) is an addlepated little romp that pits the party line against the romantic line in Behind-the-Iron-Curtairi Czechoslovakia. Viveca Lindfors is an unglamorous Prague secretary who stomps about dressed in what appears to be an old burlap bag, and whose clod of a boy friend woos her with gifts of herring. But soon a handsome comrade (Paul Christian), just returned from attache duty in the United States, shows up and starts to shower her with such capitalistic blessings as nylons, lipstick and champagne. He also offers her a bubble bath...
Other winners: Michigan State, rated No. 1 in the United Press poll of the nation's coaches, in a romp over Texas A. & M., 48-6, the Texans' worst defeat in 54 years; Maryland, pre-season national favorite, finally living up to its promise in routing unbeaten Georgia, 37-0; Yale, bunching three last-period touchdowns against Columbia (the winning one with only eight seconds to play) in a wild, Frank Merriwell-style thriller, 35-28; Oklahoma, by a startling margin over Texas...
Around Irma and Sam-and an assortment of turn-of-the-century islanders-Novelist William March fashions a choice tropical romp in the serio-comic vein of Satirists Aubrey Menen and Edgar Mittelholzer...