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...important fault: it plays its satire too safe. But the script, by Rip Van Ronkel, is written with a nice sense of pace. The camera, moreover, is wittily used. The long, slow start in which the husband and wife go through the motions of getting ready for work is a piece of slickly observed americana. The acting is sound, too, even in the side parts. Best of all is the work of Director José Ferrer, who has even managed to coax a graceful, flexible performance out of wooden-faced Leading Man José Ferrer...
Mommele, Poppele. Abie was a natural for radio when Anne Nichols persuaded Soapmaker Procter & Gamble to put it on the air last year. Playwright Nichols, who bats out the serial with the assistance of a writer named Alford Van Ronkel and the cast, hoarded her material so carefully that a year passed before she exhausted the three acts of her play. The strident squabbles continue with the newlyweds subordinated to their united families. Babies belch, actors say "oi" and "certainel," call each other "mommele," "poppele," and "schlemihlich shpalpeen...
...Honeymoon (by Anne Nichols & Alford Van Ronkel; Anne Nichols, producer) is the first drama to bear the Nichols auctorial stamp since this phenomenal show woman wrote and produced Abie's Irish Rose in 1922. That theatrical miracle, thoroughly damned by critics, struggled along at cut-rate prices for six months, then suddenly got second wind and ran for five years on Broadway, setting an all-time record of 2,532 performances. Abie's Irish Rose made Play wright Nichols an estimated $6.000,000. In California, where she still putters at playwriting and raises alligator pears, she no longer...