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...Luce's script gives her every chance to flood the stage with tears, purity, and goodness. Every character has at least two problems, and it seems that only Margeret can fix things with the Lord for them. As the play rolls on, the problems rapidly deteriorate into such a tangle that even Margaret has serious trouble fixing things for everyone--including herself...
...script epitomizes the turmoil of its era in a stilted boy-meets-girl romance between a Roman commander (Robert Taylor) and a Christian hostage (Deborah Kerr) who, as the ads say, must struggle between her faith and "his powerful masculine appeal." Between Actor Taylor's woodenness and the coyly pallid playing of Actress Kerr, the struggle seems tame enough to justify one unconsciously comic lapse into domesticity. After Deborah is snatched from the stake and Christianity bests Nero's regime in a spectacular upheaval of death and destruction, Commander Taylor bids goodbye to his trusted friend: "Come visit...
...rugged Colorado outdoors, superbly photographed in Technicolor; a conscientious effort to show how trappers actually looked and lived in the Western wilderness of 1830; a big cast headed by Clark Gable in one of his manliest roles. Unfortunately, all the color and muscle is not enough to hide the script's severe case of dramatic anemia...
...quite clear that Princeton, whom Yale plays next Saturday, had more than enough to beat the Blue and the class the Crimson showed during the first half must have alarmed him even more, since that wasn't in the script...
...Radio script writer Carl Leo's first attempt at writing Broadway, comedy has resulted in a clever and, at times, very funny play. But it falls down where most comedies of its sort usually to--when the inherent humor of the original situation wears thin and the action sinks to meaningless dialogue. The plot of "Never Say Never" is reminiscent of the "Voice of the Turtle"; a young couple named Coralie and Alex live together in a New York apartment without the formality of marriage because the girl wishes to retain her independence. Complications set in when a former hometown...