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Somehow, the acting seemed no more to blame than the directing. Individual roles were at times sufficient, but they were too much isolated from the rest of the play. The plot is pure syrup and the interpretation hasn't prevented it from spilling over. When you should be crying you find yourself twisting a program, and you have to be careful to keep from laughing at the wrong time. The treatment is purely Victorian, as the prologue announces, but the return to candid sentimentalism is unfortunately too much for both the cast and the audience...
...plot is strictly for pancakes: American boy in Yankee Division learns that British aren't really cold and unemotional when they grin and bear it; war plus Diana Barrymore teach Robert Stack that there is something bigger than individual emotionalism. Yes, the plot is corn syrup, but it doesn't matter at all. It doesn't matter because, for the first time, we see fleets of Spitfires fighting German Messerschmidts; we see two thousand horse power bombers with three ton bombs tucked away in their bellies; we see a frightening, new version of "Hell's Angels." All this runs throughout...
...rationing of sugar and cocoa (which formerly constituted half of $400,000,000 worth of candy sold each year). But the confectioners pushed their product as an important Army food item; and bravely produced new wartime candies, featuring: powdered milk, dried fruit, domestic nuts, shredded and toasted soybeans, corn syrup, sweet potatoes, cereal, cracker meal, cornstarch, gelatin, peanut butter, and three-day-old bread...
Dainties. In London, British cooks at U.S. Army Headquarters did what they could to improvise "American dishes" for the officers, came up with items that included cream of peanut-butter soup, canned corn with syrup, macaroni salad...
Following antique herbals, many housewives concocted their own elixir of hips. Widespread result: they found themselves not only spooning out vitamin C to their bairns, but, as corks popped in pantries, indulging in a potent homebrew. Amused but impressed, one British medical journal observed: "We may even see hip syrup competing with orange juice after...