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...Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (RKO Radio) is a farcical love story with some genuinely new angles, some of them genuinely amusing. When Bobby-Soxer Shirley Temple falls head over socks for Bachelor Gary Grant, she invades his lair so compromisingly that he is jailed. But Shirley's big sister Myrna Loy, a judge, hands out a light penalty: he only has to squire the child around until her infatuation wears...
...helmet exactly as if it were a snap brim. Writer Sidney Sheldon has inserted a bit of adolescent dizzy-dialectic* that might even become epidemic. And the whole cast, notably Mr. Vallee, is obviously having a fine "time. So will most people, for The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer is good summer-weight comedy...
Nostalgic G.I.s in the audience licked their PX ice cream cones and marveled that a man could be so close to home 6,000 miles away. Their tabi-soxer* friends chewed gum (U.S. style) and snickered (Japanese style) at the strange way some of their sisters made a living...
Dobie had a radical suggestion: "We're not going to get anywhere under the im-aginationless name of UNESCO. Call it 'people-just people.'" A bobby-soxer had an idea: "What about every school in the United States adopting a needy school somewhere in the world?" Chairman Eisenhower "liked that idea very much...
According to Skaarup and Winther, a bobby-soxer is a flapper; ladies' undies are called twilights; a drizzle is a boy who always walks with the same girl; and when you say attaboy, you mean either bravo, get at it again, or a member of an air transport auxiliary corps. After consulting the dictionary, Danes would have no trouble following the English dialogue of such Hollywood hits as Himlen kan vente (Heaven Can Wait), might tackle the best-selling Der gror et Trae i Brooklyn in the original...