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...Moonlight Bay (Warner) is a folksy period musical somewhat casually adapted from the Penrod stories of Booth Tarkington, whose Seventeen is currently a Broadway musicomedy. Set in an innocent, brightly colored Indiana during World War I, the picture is strictly summer-weight material-thin, porous and not at all wrinkleproof, but comfortably loose and light...
Lamont's special electrical set-up facilitates recording. The microphone on Emmanuel's desk can be seen above. The recording equipment was placed in the booth to the left of the lower entrance to the library. Many students entering Lamont stopped to listen...
Seventeen (book by Sally Benson, based on Booth Tarkington's novel; music by Walter Kent; lyrics by Kim Gannon) is chiefly a period musical, with more tinkle than Tarkington, more of life in 1907 than of love at 17. Some of it is agreeable enough. But the infatuation of Willie Baxter for Lola Pratt seems much less a fondly done comic valentine than a conventional lace one, and a genuine American classic of youngness has become a mere frolic of youth...
...lively score is as full of good spirits and front-stoop romance as an old-fashioned block party. Marcia Van Dyke and Johnny Johnston sing the love songs (I'll Buy You a Star, Make the Man Love Me, etc.) straight from the shoulder; veteran Comedienne Shirley Booth comes through with a fine Brooklyn boid in her verce...
...full two hour view of bashful, puberty conscious adolescents amuse you, then do not miss the musical comedy adaption of Booth Tarkington's "Seventeen." That is all you will...