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When the plot of a musical comedy is skimpy, when the acting is spotty, and the music questionable, the show should be a real stinker. But such minor quibbles have never bothered Drumbeats and Song in previous productions, and certainly had little effect if any on this year's --Miss Informed...
...language of her contemporaries, she is a square who wants to fit into a world that is round. In the end, after her mother and the boy next door smooth off some of the rough edges, she does. Betty Lou Keim, as the girl, is too convincing a little stinker to generate much pathos, and Ginger Rogers is too vapid a mother to rouse much sympathy. But the acting is competent, the big scenes affecting. In fact, the whole thing is a lot better than most of the drama the moviegoer could see at home...
...Republicans had to nominate Nixon -to have a ready excuse if they lose. They now have a General and a General Nuisance. The Democrats have a thinker and a stinker. I'll vote for Pogo...
...proves to be a mean little stinker who kills puppy dogs, and his daughter Thelma a snobbish, touch-me-not icicle who is ashamed of her father and mother and their back-country ways...
...what a stinker you're going to be next year!" gloats the little boy in the cartoon, as he looks himself up in the child-care book. This is no joke to Author Whitman, who feels that, in living too much by the book and trying to fit himself into patterns, modern man has become a pretty frightening character...