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This fantasy is whacky and funny, but it is also soundly based on reason and a serious philosophical outlook--in this respect resembling Thornton Wilder's Skin of Our Teeth. It is certainly destined to become a theatre classic...
...Turned down the plea of Old Guard Republican Samuel Wilder King, 70, for renomination, instead chose young (38) Honolulu Ikeman, Lawyer William Francis Quinn, as twelfth territorial governor of Hawaii...
...Spirit of St. Louis. New York to Paris with Charles A. Lindbergh; Director Billy Wilder and Actor James Stewart make a good film about a great adventure (TIME, March...
Love in the Afternoon (Billy Wilder; Allied Artists) suggests that the Big Bad Wolf can be devoured by Little Red Ridinghood-provided she plays her cad right. Romancer Claude Anet's 1924 novel Ariane, transplanted in the movie from Moscow to Paris, originally fascinated a generation of French schoolgirls, inspiring them to daydreams of enticing worldly seducers into marriage beds. A German film version (1931) with Elisabeth Bergner as its cunning heroine sent many a lovelorn Mädchen into similar transports...
Hollywood, turning its best scene-milking hand to this bittersweet trifle, called upon the services of Producer-Director Wilder. Squeezing the last drop of champagne from his vintage script of springtime in Paris, Co-Scripter Wilder achieves many effervescent effects. But his last-minute cascade of bubbles, belly laughs and bathos is overstretched and often repetitious...