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...Moonlight Bay (Warner) is a folksy period musical somewhat casually adapted from the Penrod stories of Booth Tarkington, whose Seventeen is currently a Broadway musicomedy. Set in an innocent, brightly colored Indiana during World War I, the picture is strictly summer-weight material-thin, porous and not at all wrinkleproof, but comfortably loose and light...
...visit in his Winton 6. But various long-suffering grown-ups just go through stock-company motions, and that great pioneer in brathood, Willie's kid sister Jane, today seems just another brat. Ann Crowley, who is a pleasant enough ingenue as Lola, seldom becomes Tarkington's baby-talking, beau-snatching vamp, at once a young man's dream and everyone else's nightmare...
Seventeen (book by Sally Benson, based on Booth Tarkington's novel; music by Walter Kent; lyrics by Kim Gannon) is chiefly a period musical, with more tinkle than Tarkington, more of life in 1907 than of love at 17. Some of it is agreeable enough. But the infatuation of Willie Baxter for Lola Pratt seems much less a fondly done comic valentine than a conventional lace one, and a genuine American classic of youngness has become a mere frolic of youth...
...full two hour view of bashful, puberty conscious adolescents amuse you, then do not miss the musical comedy adaption of Booth Tarkington's "Seventeen." That is all you will...
...Member of the Wedding sensitively creates a small and special world, and for a while beautifully sustains it. It can be notably funny in a Tarkington-like way, yet it remembers and records the balked, anarchic feelings, the tremulous tragicomedy of ending childhood. Unfortunately, it suffers after a while from being so much less a play than a mere picture of people. It would make an ideal long one-acter. As it stands, the second act repeats the mood of the first with somewhat diminished success, and the choppy third act resorts to melodrama with no success...