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There is something magnificently arrogant about the way Boud and Decca extracted the last yard of mileage out of their hyphens as they joined forces-Fascist and Communist-dedicated to the destruction of aristocracy. Boud, before she met Hitler, insisted on taking her pet rat to debutante balls. With Philip Toynbee (Historian Arnold's son), Decca raided Eton College chapel and decamped with a carload of top hats...
...matter of fact, persons attempting to find Huck Finn in this picture will be, to say the least, disappointed. As written, Huck was a young river rat who lived in a wharf barrel and smelt like his surroundings. As played by Actor Hodges, a stage child who got his start on Broadway in The Music Man, the prototype of frontier boyhood is a freckled-faced mother's darling who reeks of soap and suburban charm, and who looks exactly the way Producer Goldwyn wanted him to look: like "a Missouri Peter Pan." But Finn fans will forget this minor...
...Rat Race (Perlberg-Seaton; Paramount) is something for the rubbernecks who think New York is a great place to visit but would hate to live there-and never get tired of saying so. In this picture Scenarist Garson (Born Yesterday) Kanin, who also wrote the 1950 Broadway comedy that his script is borrowed from, feeds the out-of-town customers a mess of their own sour grapes, along with a generous helping of sex, sentiment, sadism and smartchat...
...Wonderful News." There were, to be sure, some early exceptions to the general handwringing. The New York Daily News was predictably truculent in advising President Eisenhower about how to reply to Khrushchev's charges: "To sweet talk this rat at this time would only encourage him to further pre-summit impudence." Said Hearst's San Francisco Examiner: "The way some people are talking, you would think we had sold our world leader ship down the Volga." Said the Chicago Tribune: "In the bargaining at the sum mit, the Soviet demands and claims will be deterred only...
...thousands of other youngsters, this is precisely the goal to work toward. College should mean much, and one that does can be found. What it takes is early preparation, steady saving, wise choosing, and resolution not to be stampeded in the rat race...