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...cute idea-maybe too cute. But the screenplay, worked up by Arthur Sheek-man and William Driskill from a novel (Ada Dallas) by Wirt Williams, develops it into a pleasant political comedy, and Daniel (Butterfield 8) Mann directs the show with tact and skill. He makes the most of Martin's charm, the least of Hayward's flim-flamboyance. And in Ralph Meeker he viciously personifies the police power in a native Fascist regime. But it is Actor White-a British trouper usually cast as a potty colonel, a flaccid vicar, or a dear old rose fiend...
...recent American literature "for Continental consumption" seems to suggest a way in which the cultivated classes of Europe might be pressed into service as an impartial jury on American literature. The annual flood of spring literature might first be directed to European maris for critical expurgation. What would sheek the American might not necessarily be considered unusual by the European: but if European progressiveness in this respect were as slavishly aped as some other European characteristics, such medieval measures as the Rabenold Bill would find little support...
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