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...photography ranks with Henry Luce's best; its acting is natural; its humor (James Gleason, Keenan Wynn) is appealing; it does not run to absurd lengths. Yet "The Clock" drags, mostly because it is too full of little climaxes and its big climax is poorly timed. What's worse, Leo roars too loudly and the MGM-Sigmund Romberg-Reader's Digest flavor is too strong. And millions of people will love...
...helped along by their compound jealousy over a wolf in refugee's clothing (Carl Esmond) and Mr. Tracy's former sweetheart, who appears only insofar as Miss Hepburn malignantly, funnily parodies her mannerisms, which is appearance enough. On the sidelines the widow's boozy cousin (Keenan Wynn) and a man-chaser vaguely identified as a real-estate agent (Lucille Ball) hang around with little to do but be likable, which they seem to find easy...
...tailored walk sometimes get in her way, brings this sort of lady to life more convincingly than could anybody else in pictures. Lucille Ball handles her lowly wisecracks so well as to set up a new career for herself; and in spite of all this elegant competition, Ed Wynn's gifted son Keenan, as one of Barry's charming drunks, saunters away with the show...
...Unlike most show people, Ed Wynn did not come up the hard way, and he has been a success from the start. He began as Isaiah Edwin Leopold, son of a rich Philadelphia ladies' hat manufacturer...
...Before turning 19, Ed Wynn (a separation of his middle name, Edwin) was a headliner at Hammerstein's. On the side he composed popular tunes. After eleven successful years in vaudeville, Wynn appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1914. The Passing Show of 1916 made him a star. Writing the book, lyrics and music and starring in the Ed Wynn Carnival, The Perfect Fool, and The Grab Bag (1919-1925) made him a millionaire. Thereafter he played in seven more musical shows, all hits, made three so-so movies, and in 1932 became Texaco's "Fire Chief...