Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though the success of the moving picture proves that "The song of Bernadette" contains material for effective dramatic treatment, Joan and Walter Kerr's stage adaptation has none of the impact of the screen version. "Bernadette" is not due for a long or profitable run in Boston; and a miracle as potent as that which brought forth the healing waters in the Grotto of Massabielle would be required to make it a Broadway success...
...ingenious feature of the play that deserves favorable comment is the pleasing stage effects, secured by projection of painted slides on a screen. Except for this innovation "Bernadette" drags through three acts and ten scenes, which leave the spectator wishing he had stayed home and re-read the book...
...cinepsychiatrists are never very believable, despite the fact that they are getting to be almost as common as the old Keystone Kops. In the last year or so it has been Dr. George Sanders, Dr. Sydney Greenstreet, Dr. Ingrid Bergman, etc., while assorted neurotics and amnesiacs have roved the screen in a veritable lunatics' picnic. In an unsettled world, nothing apparently so fascinates Hollywood as the wonders of an unsettled mind, especially when it inhabits a beautiful body...
...Current attraction is "Meet John Doe," made by Warner Brothers in 1941 and starring Gary Cooper, Walter Brannan, Barbars Stanwyck, and James Gleason--an entertaining, if not profound, social-conscience picture that has none of the anachronisms in fashion and dialogue that bar many old pictures from the Majestic screen...
Blonde, petite, crinkly-eyed June Allyson, 22, has come up fast since she first arrived in Hollywood in September 1942. Probably Metro's most promising ingenue, she is the opposite of the typical young screen sparkler, looks and acts more like a well-adjusted schoolgirl from Pelham, N.Y.-which she is. Retiring, unflighty, even ungregarious, she lives quietly with her husband, reformed Crooner Dick Powell, 41, in a two-bedroom country house in the Los Angeles suburb of Brentwood. She cooks, takes art lessons, likes to read mystery stories, rarely makes the Hollywood nightclubs...