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...cast can do little with the musical score and script. Eddie Albert in the title role is called upon to juggle, perform magic tricks, and swallow fire, in addition to the normal chores of musical comedy. He does these well, but it is difficult to evaluate his interpretation because Reuben's character is left so vague and undefined. Evelyn Lear as his girl gives a hrikingly uneven performance at various times, she manages to resemble Martha Raye, June Allyson, and Joan Crawford. Kaye Ballard, the brilliant comedienne of The Golden Apple, suffers most from the sparseness of the material...
...script tries hard to play it fast and Loos, Jane and Jeanne, a couple of nightclub singers, take their act to Paris, where they are met by Scott Brady and Alan Young, two young men about down, and by Rudy Vallee, a fading ember who knew the girls when they were their own mothers-or so it looks in the flashbacks. For a while everybody vaguely engages in dialogue ("Allons, enfants! let's go cher-cher les dames!"), and then off on a CinemaScope tour of Paris...
According to the script, Captain McConnell (played with rubbery insensitivity by Alan Ladd) was emotionally the sort of cheerful Neanderthal who proposed to his wife at a prizefight, called her "Butch," and treated her like a meddling parent that he continually had to outwit. The wife (played by June Allyson, who has recently provided the ball-and-chain for almost every picture she appears in) is presented in turn as a relentless good sport who makes her home in one plywood horror after another, spends half her time in heart-rending goodbyes, and keeps muttering sub-hysterically, "Sweetheart...
...plucky cowboy who triumphs over both the cops and robbers while winning the love of spirited Pat Roe. Kraft TV Theater took the edge off any social satire that remained in its adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Diamond as Big as the Ritz by playing the script as farce; U.S. Steel introduced the TV audience to Broadway Comic Menasha Skulnik with a Runyonesque comedy about a genial barber who outwits a combine of gangsters and horseplayers: Lux Video Theater, with an updating of Sir Arthur Wing Pinero's classic The Enchanted Cottage, proved without question that...
Anybody who wants to see the whole show at the Exeter can stay to watch the main feature, Holiday for Henrietta. A fairly amusing if rather light-weight French comedy, the picture relates the agony of a couple of script writers trying to grind out a scenario for a new movie. Each idea they dredge up is shown acted out as if it were part of the finished production...