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...stale it is. The old sophisticated drawing-room comedy with the self-sufficient woman and the insufficient plot. Once it was Fred MacMurray, now it's Brian Aherne. But Rosalind Russell stays the same. It gets boring, Nick, honest it does...
Before long the girl-shy Whirlwind, drunk with love, is as friskily unmanageable as a brontosaurus in a bridal suite. (Good scene: his Dionysian rumba with exhausted Miss Russell in her apartment, to ear-cleaving radio music, deep in the night.) Meanwhile the Honest Man (Brian Aherne), who is writing Miss Russell's profile, loafs around with his hat jammed on (to prove he is a journalist), befriends the bemused Whirlwind, sneers at double-dealing Miss Russell, grabs her the instant she betrays a dawning sense of decency...
Outsized Newcomer Willard Parker, smooth Brian Aherne, some sharp dialogue and, above all, sharp Cinemactress Russell, who has the edgy glitter of black jet, help to keep this unlikely comedy likable...
Stimulated Readers Sirs: It is no news to you that people for divers and sundry reasons read TIME. ... I read it . . . because it often contains articles like the one . . . about Brian O'Nolan (TIME, Aug 23) of Eire, whom I don't know from Adam and-and this is precisely the point-about whom I'd still know nothing but for TIME...
...spritely Keatsian reminiscences by Brian O'Nolan in your Aug. 23 issue recall that in his youth Keats took such a passionate interest in baseball he became regarded as a sage of the diamond, was often called upon to settle disputed matches...