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Come Back, Little Sheba (Hal Wallis; Paramount). William Inge's Broadway hit about two mismated people, faithfully transferred to the screen; with Burt Lancaster, Shirley Booth (TIME...
...cartoonists," mutters Hal Boyle, columnist, "always picture the new year as a husky infant, cheerfully shouldering the old year off the stage. It is an inaccurate portrait," he concludes testily, "and it is even more inaccurate this year." All of which is most mysterious. We can understand assaults on St. Nicholas, whose ubiquity has cheapened the season's spirit, and on the scrawny puritan that well-fed Thanksgivers are wont to evoke. But why pick on the new year's babe...
Come Back, Little Sheba (Hal Wallis; Paramount) is a minor but moving tragedy on a major theme: the lives of quiet desperation that men lead. Its central characters are two mismated people: Doc (Burt Lancaster), who was once a promising medical student, and "pretty Lola" (Shirley Booth), who once had lots of beaux. Then Doc got Lola into trouble and had to marry her; their baby died. Now, after 20 years which seems to have "vanished into thin air," Doc is a chiropractor and a reformed drunk, while Lola is "old, fat and sloppy," with nothing on her mind...
...Come Back, Little Sheba (Hal Wallis; Paramount), a film version of the 1950 Broadway hit play (TIME, Feb. 27, 1950) about a reformed drunk and his sluttish wife, starring Shirley Booth, who appears to be a cinch for a best-actress nomination (see below...
Because at the end of the first period, the allegedly weak Jumbos had held the Crimson absolutely scoreless. The Harvard attack was functioning well enough, but the puck somehow never could find its way behind Hal Taylor, a sophomore from Brooklyn who played a brilliant game in the Tufts nets...