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...play tells of an old maid (Jessie Royce Landis) who gets involved in a dippy romance with a patent-medicine salesman (Walter Huston). In the midst of her flutterings, a vast family of Okies calmly moves in on her and refuses to budge. After much ado, the old maid's house burns down and everybody makes for the residence of a Greek wrestler, where the Spirit of Love triumphs immoderately...
...family of primates called man reached human status in Asia, Africa, or Europe (possibly in all three), came relatively late to North America. Scattered fossils of individuals-notably the famed "Minnesota Maid" who apparently fell or was thrown into a Glacial Period lake -have been dated as having lived 10,000 to 20,000 years ago. But even this modest antiquity has been denied by the Smithsonian Institution's doughty Ales Hrdlicka. Until recently the earliest known American "culture" was that of mysterious Folsom Man, whose first tools and campsites were encountered near Folsom, N. Mex. No remains...
...plot drones on about a houseful of servants who try to rehabilitate their bankrupt master by palming off a pretty scullery maid as a debutante, hoping she will bag a millionaire. The stage swarms with snooty butlers, comic valets, tripping parlormaids, hoity-toity housekeepers, red-nosed cooks. Higher and Higher is really floored by the Servant Problem. As though that were not enough, the show goes in for haunted rooms, visitors from Iceland, phantom coachmen, hidden wine cellars, a butlers' ball. Otherwise there is virtually no plot...
...Webster came upon Noah quite unexpectedly and found him daudling the maid upon his knee...
...transferring this doleful drama to film, the producers have also transferred (without improving) the novel's main dilemma. Boiled down it is: how to make convincing the relationship between a father, who behaves like a doting old maid, and a son, who is a little too bad to be true...