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ROBERT HAWKINS Santa Barbara, Calif...
...Married. Barbara Yvonne White. 20, orphaned in the bombing of London, adopted daughter of Publisher-Editor William L. (Bill) White of the Emporia Gazette, and child heroine of Editor White's 1941 novel. Journey for Margaret; and Air Force 2nd Lieut. Paul David Walker Jr., 22; in Emporia, Kans...
...Pipes Bobby: "I don't think it's good for parents to be left alone too much!") The seekers are Bobby's widowed father (ProducerDirector Gene Kelly), a Paris-based U.S. businessman who sneers at the French as inefficient foreigners, and Brigitte's divorced mamma (Barbara Laage), a svelte French pastry who has broken a bank in Monte Carlo and now plans to marry...
...hooky-players soon assume the stature of resistance heroes to the French school kids who improbably help speed them on their way. On their trail, Kelly and Barbara feud continuously over whose child is the culpable genius of the escape. At one point the young refugees, trapped amidst some NATO ground maneuvers, totally thwart the efforts of a pushbutton general (hammishly caricatured by Michael Redgrave) to pinpoint them, even outwit his dread Operation Meatloaf ("Not intended for use until the Red army is actually in Trafalgar Square"). Amusing except when it pleads ponderously for international understanding, The Happy Road eventually...
...Joan (Preminger; United Artists) performs, with the greatest of ease, the feat of turning Shaw into pshaw. Given what is probably the master's masterpiece, Producer-Director Otto Preminger (The Man with the Golden Arm) has concluded what is certainly the feeblest of the five films-Pygmalion, Major Barbara, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles and the Lion are the others-that have been made from Shaw's plays...