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...Daughter of Rosie O'Grady (Warner) is a thin Irish stew of vaudeville acts, served up in turn-of-the-century Manhattan with a father-doesn't-approve love story. June Haver, one of three overprotected daughters of a crotchety Irish widower (James Barton), defies the old man by going into show business and taking up with Showman Tony Pastor (Gordon MacRae). Another daughter (Marsha Jones), who has already defied him by marrying secretly, is expecting twins. The central gag: learning that one of the girls is pregnant, Barton suspects the worst of June. The music and dance...
Francis, who could have settled the Army psychiatrists' problem with a few words, lets them stew in their conferences, finally speaks up to a three-star general (John McIntire). After resuming his silence long enough to cast doubt on the general's sanity, the mule tells off a roomful of war correspondents and wins his own hero's reward...
...same time he passes up the chance to document the small, disagreeable details of prison life. Notable exception: a chilling little scene in which Actress Colbert gobbles a messy stew filched out of the officers' garbage, while speculating cheerfully over what she is eating...
...pretty and gay as striped candy. Charles S. Smith's Urban Landscape was contrastingly gloomy, but its gloom was of the pleasantly unreal sort that makes Poe's horror stories entertaining. As might have been expected, there was an atomic-bomb picture-an explosion in a surrealist stew cooked up by Mrs. Annabel Berry of Dallas. The fanciest fantasy in the show was a Captive Amazonian Albino, painted by M. Lewis Croissant, a Missouri engineer...
...William O'Dwyer, 59, and the former Sloan Simpson, 33, were honeymooning last week, advanced one theory as to why the Irish-born onetime city cop fell in love with the Texas-born onetime model: "She not only is a charming girl, but she makes a wonderful, mulligan stew...