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Miss Gordon has written about Paula Wharton-a Dorothy-Parkerish writer who becomes an Army wife-with something like a Parker pen. While Paula's 39-year-old husband sweats for his commission, his sophisticated wife is exposed to wet-behind-the-ears Army youngsters and null-behind-the-skull colonels' wives. To help her husband, she drips sweetness; but she is saved from choking on treacle by such menaces in mufti as her husband's former boss and a Hollywood producer...
Much of Over Twenty-One is decidedly vin Gordonaire, but it is smoothly decanted. Skimpy scenes are saved by funny gags and shrewd "business." (When the Hollywood producer gets into a tantrum on the phone he stops, ceremoniously hands his secretary the receiver, snaps: "Hang up on him.") As Paula, Actress Gordon purrs, shrugs, grimaces, ladles out her syrup, squirts her poison with enormous verve. George S. Kaufman directs traffic with his expert eye for preventing the wrong kind of snarl and encouraging the right kind of collision...
Something for the Boys tells of three uninhibited cousins (Ethel Merman, Paula Laurence, Allen Jenkins) who inherit a Texas ranch next door to Kelly Field and set up a boardinghouse for soldiers' wives. In their spare time they also make defense gadgets out of carborundum. The hostelry turns into a scandal, and Actress Merman, by getting some carborundum in her teeth, turns into a radio receiving set. After that nothing even tries to make sense...
With one exception all the prints were non-instantaneous photographs of static subjects. They made it clear that for a half century Stieglitz has been a superb camera technician and artist, scornful of trickery and flash. The 1889 experiment with sunlight seeping through the Venetian blinds in Paula (see cut) was no less experimental, no less successful than Car 2F 77-77 (1935), where a house and trees are seen mirrored in the shining surface of an automobile...
...story is about a shell-shocked soldier (Mr. Colman) who, as "John Smith," emerges in a daze from an asylum on Armistice Night, 1918. A jolly, warmblooded music-hall actress, Paula (Miss Garson), picks him up in the fog, nurses him to health and the altar. They are happily tucked away in a little cottage, complete with baby, when "Smithy," job-bent, is jolted from his amnesia by a street accident in Liverpool and remembers he is Charles Rainier, son of an aristocratic family. Unaware of cottage, wife and child, he goes home to Random Hall to resume life...