Word: tomboyish
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...Navy officer reported missing in action, repeats her dramatic success in "So Proudly We Hall" with plenty to spare. Joseph Cotton scores his own triumph, and Monty Wooley adds the inimitable Wooley flavor in his rivalry with the family bulldog. Shirley Temple in her stock role of the tomboyish teen-ager injects a warm appeal...
Considered from a strictly technical point of view, the job was too great for the cast assigned to it. Sylvia Sydney seemed little more than adequate in her portrayal of Jo; she was too sophisticated at times for a sympathetic rendering of a tomboyish bookworm. Amy was the best-played character in the cast, with Edythe Ward giggling and mispronouncing her way to humor and at times adding a human interest touch. Otherwise the cast was decidedly mediocre, except for individual moments too scattered to be effective. Mary Barthclmess, as Beth, was little more than good in her playing...
...little; with him, and a carefully selected cast, it is highly amusing and altogether worth while. In the supporting company are Miss Mary Boland, Miss Thais Lawton, late of the New Theatre company, and Miss Carrol McComas, who has deserted musical comedy to do splendidly the part of a tomboyish but otherwise charming girl...