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...there is also a screenplay. Too vaguely based on Booth Tarkington's Penrod stories, the picture unreels some foolishly romantic complications in a small Indiana town at the threshold of the Jazz Age. Among those present: a stuffy paterfamilias (Leon Ames), an understanding mother (Rosemary DeCamp), a comic maid (Mary Wickes), an unruly youngster (Billy Gray), a pet turkey named Gregory. With its sleighrides, ice-skating parties and other Technicolored bucolics, By the Light of the Silvery Moon is so relentlessly wholesome that moviegoers may wish for the Dead End kids to drop...
Robert's brow is the first to take a fever dew for this belle dame sans merci, and soon the two are sighing full sore. John begins to thirst after the lady, too, but being a practical fellow, quenches himself at her serving maid. Guy comes along a little later and makes such a pretty leg that the fickle fair forgets all about Robert, who takes, in his turn, to the consolations of religion. Soon, though, it's dash away all to the Holy Land, and the drums of war drown out the viole d'amour...
...Allen displays a light, flexible soprano in her numerous arias, Mr. Barbeau an agile yet powerful bass. Anthony Giarraputo's characterization of the other miser is consistently funny. Peter Elvin's caricature of the hero perhaps goes beyond his intentions at times. Elizabeth Kalkhurst is appealing as the shrewd maid...
...Barry Blake, another child actor in the play. Then the grownup actors-who can be just as sensitive in these matters as children-took offense when Jenny started stealing scenes from them, by mugging or winking at the audience. Backstage, Jenny thumbed her nose at Actress Vicki Cummings' maid, and, it was charged, even mother Hecht insulted Hollywood Actor Mark Stevens (playing Jenny's father) by yelling and burping into his face...
Razor & Rope. One morning last week the maid got no reply when she knocked at the door of Room 223. Police broke it down. They found the room a shambles, the bedclothes scattered. Some time in the night, Pierre Delaitre had strangled Eileen and slashed her throat with a razor. She died on the Louis XIV bed. Pierre had cut his own throat, but not deeply enough. Bleeding heavily, he had scribbled an incoherent note telling of his anguish at losing the woman he could not live without, then tied one end of a 9-ft. rope around his neck...