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...Bride Wore Boots (Paramount) is a depressing little example of what can happen to a romantic farce when it is mauled by inept hands. Plainly designed as an airy, sophisticated yarn, the film follows the marital ups & downs of Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Cummings. After seven years of marriage, they are the parents of two healthy, handsome and singularly bad-mannered children...
...BARBARA BIGELOW New York City...
...Barbara Hutton, unseasonably and unaccountably, tripped out of the Paris Ritz in a pair of shorts, strolled in the Place Vendome, returned to find an assistant manager at the door. He suggested the back entrance. The President of France was expected shortly, and her skirtless aspect didn't fit in. The dime-store heiress ducked in anyway. The President missed...
...play he is. Two conditions in his becoming human--one providing that he never enter any church of God and the other threatening to make him a witch again if Barbara Allen isn't faithful for a full year--make his sorrow, Barbara's death, and the story of "Dark of the Moon." Throughout this story, at the wedding, in the woods when the witch-girls display excellent reasons for the boy's return to the moon-and-eagle life, in the Allen cabin, and above all at the revival in the church when Barbara is accused of marrying...
That the ceriness seldom if ever borders on the ridiculous is the achievement of all concerned with the production. The outstanding contributions are those made by Esther Junger's dances and special staging effects, by George Jenkins' superb sets and lighting, and by Carol Stone's performance as Barbara and James Lanphier's as the boy, but the entire Shubert production displays great balance and skill. And, despite its long travels since it was born around the corner at the Brattle Theatre two summers ago, and since it first appeared in Boston under the Shubert banner, "Dark of the Moon...