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...backward child psychology and flinches under systematic torment by the overprecocious moppet. When he finds her smoking and gulping Scotch in an unguarded moment, she agrees to give up these peccadilloes, but only if he will forgo them too. She manages to squelch his romance with a French singer (Paula Corday), and when she turns his paternal good-night kiss into something more heated, she makes Johnson recoil with the stunned horror of a man discovering that, deep down, he is an all-too-willing fiend...
...Banana (words & music by Johnny Mercer; book by Hy Kraft; produced by Paula Stone & Mike Sloane) is the most enjoyable show, considering how many things are wrong with it, that Broadway has seen in years. Few recent musicals have been so generally fast on their feet; fewer still have been so truly funny. And none has been more of a one-man show...
...leftovers about a divorcee (Kathryn Grayson) on the make for her ex-husband (Van Johnson). The dialogue and plot maneuvers are determinedly labeled for comedy and remarkably scant of laughs. Since Opera Singer Grayson develops voice trouble and Physician Johnson is a nose & throat specialist with an uppity fiancee (Paula Raymond), any bobby-soxer should be able to triangulate the solution...
...Meridian, Miss, last week, a woman became spiritual leader of the congregation of Temple Beth Israel, the second largest Jewish community in the state. Mrs. Paula Ackerman, 57, widow of Rabbi William Ackerman, was appointed by the trustees to take over her late husband's duties until a regular rabbi can be found for the post. Though she may not become a rabbi, because she has not fulfilled the educational requirements, Mrs. Ackerman, leader of a 100-member Reform congregation, is the first woman in the U.S. to execute a rabbi's functions...
...Civil War to raise cattle on his family's ancient acreage. A villainous, mustachioed lawyer (Louis Calhern) persuades a band of sheep raisers to homestead on Taylor's land, thus compounding two time-honored feuds: sheep v. cattle and settlers v. Indians. A pretty female lawyer (Paula Raymond) with an unrequited yen for Taylor tries for a peaceful agreement...