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Some 8,000 parading schoolboys (and girls) who were being reviewed by shapely Carol Bruce in New Brunswick, N.J. got out of control in front of the stand, turned a patriotic rally into a juvenile riot of yelling and pushing. Result: bruised Miss Bruce went scooting out a back way and off to New York with a pair of torn stockings...
Chadwick Maurer, as the Stage Manager, sets just the right mood for the whole play. Carol Wheeler, as Emily, and Burt French, as George, make difficult transition from childhood to adulthood with remarkable skill. Perhaps the outstanding performance is that of William Otis, as Editor Webb. His dialogue with George, the bridegroom-to-be, over the breakfast table on the wedding morning is a masterpiece of indirection. Except for an occasional overplayed speech, the rest of the cast, which includes John Rand, Robert Resor, and Robert Bastille, all '43, is up to the standard of the principals...
When it comes to who's missing from the cast, the big gap is the absence of Carol Bruce, who put over a number of songs in the stage original. Paramount has dug up somebody named Donna Drake to fill in for her. Donna looks like Carol, all right, but that's all, and what were hit tunes on the stage are flops here. The other songs are effectively handled, although some of the best ones, especially "It's A Lovely Day Tomorrow," are either left out or merely used as background music...
Divorced. Pulitzer Prizewinning Novelist John Steinbeck (The Grapes of Wrath), 40; by Carol Henning Steinbeck, 38; after an eleven-month separation; in Salinas, Calif. She won a settlement of $220,000 and the Steinbeck home at Pacific Grove, Calif...
...based on novels; both deal with coal-mining. But while "How Green Was My Valley" has grossed heavily at the box-office through shrewd advertising based on the appeal of the book and the prestige of the director, John Ford; "The Stars Look Down," an English film directed by Carol Reed, has had to succeed on merit alone, even though it is the better picture. Aside from a week at the Fine Arts in Boston, its only local showing was at the U. T. last Wednesday. Since the producers did not spend any great sums of money exploiting...