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...picture is very far from being a total loss. Joseph Cotten's muted, excruciating performance is the best single guarantee of that; some moments of deep warmth and sympathy from Miss Rogers are also valuable. And the rest of the cast and David O. Selznick, Producer Dore Schary and Director William Dieterle have done a good many unpretentiously remarkable things...
Schoolmistress's Conquests. Headmistress Sparling met Barsetshire's chilliness with warmth and infinite tact. She sympathized with the demoted Beltons. She was gentle with absent-minded Vicar Oriol. She listened tolerantly to eccentric old Mrs. Updike's half-witted worries-such as how one would kill a chicken on a desert island ("The only thing I can think of would be to work myself . . . into a ... rage and stamp on its head"). She commiserated with Mrs. Hoare, whose daughter had married a Dutchman and borne nothing but girls ("It's something to do with Princess Juliana...
...every theater homesick men would hear the ancient words ". . . and on earth peace, good will to men. ..." and secretly treasure their memories of warmth, love and good cheer. Hundreds of fighting ships would have Christmas trees, flown west from Pearl Harbor. Admiral Nimitz would be visited by a Seabee Santa Claus. Soldiers slogging up Highway 65, near the Fifth Army's Italian front, would see a huge Merry Christmas sign, and a fog-shrouded Apennine pine decorated with 400 colored lights. G.I.s would have Christmas parties for children in France, England, Italy, Iceland, the Philippines; and each father could...
Humor and characterization are excellent in "The Late George Apley," but that is about all. The plot lacks substance and sentimental appeal and has none of the warmth that might have rescued it. The effect is always superficial; never once does the tone of the play suggest a smooth or natural flow. Epigrams and quotable witticisms follow in rapid succession, and if the play's continual references to Boston life delight the audiences here, that delight can be expected to diminish to the chuckle stains, on Broadway. Chuckles do not make hits...
...Lily Pons. She is the capable but hardly startling descendant of a great line beginning with Jenny Lind and including Adelina Patti, Nellie Melba, Luisa Tetrazzini, Amelita Galli-Curci. Measuring Korjus against the yardstick of their memories, old-timers placed her somewhere near the Pons mark, admired the warmth, vibrancy and agility of her voice, which reminded them slightly of Melba...