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' Aisle SeatkBy JIM JUNDSTROMToo Young To Kiss,” coming to the Paramount, gives Van John-fcon and June Allyson a chance to make the most of their talent for light comedy.Johnson is cast as a charming and cultured concert manager. Miss Allyson as a blossoming pianist who poses as a 13-year-old prodigy. Miss Allyson pulls the wool over Johnson’s eyes when she discovers the only way she can get a hearing before the great man Is to sneak into, an audition for talented children,* Johnson signs her up and insists she live at his country homewhile preparing for her first concert. This leads to funny complies-lions involving Miss Allyson's boy fnend, Johnsons girl friend, child psychology, and the impending exposure.JOHNSON IS SHOCKED when he catches Miss Allyson smoking and drinking his liquor, but she promises to give them up if he will. He iS jolted again when his fatherly kisses are returned with morethan childish fervor.Allyson plays her concert even though the hoax has been exposed* and runs off in torment to marry her impatient boy friend, Gig Young. But Johnson, yon may be sure, is not going to let sucha talented and kissable pianist get away. ^Walter Pidgeon has the title role in the cofeature, Captain Bulldog Drummond/’ playing a wily gentleman detective who cracksa tough case for Scotland Yard.* # *The Fox opens Wednesday with “Force of Arms,” a well-played war picture starling William Holden and Nancy Olson.HOLDEN IS CAST as an army sergeant whose bravely wins him a battlefield commission. While on leave he/ meets Miss Olson, a WAC lieutenant, and they have an off-and-on romance that is as true and beautiful as they can make it against the dirty background ofwar.When Holden returns to the front his love for Miss Olson makes . 1dm more cautious than before. He refuses to attack the antitank gun position that knocks out the tank in which his major, Frank Love joy, Is riding. Blaming himself for Love joy’s death, Holden goes back on - the hue to expiate his guilt, is wounded, and reported missing.“Force of Arms” .was filmed from a story by war correspondent Richard Tregaskis.“Cyrano de Bergerac,” the role that gave Jose Ferrer last year’s Academy Award, is back at the Vista at popular prices.the MOVIE IS A rousing good yarn in which Ferrer romps about spouting poetic pharses and skewering opponents with the true aplomb of a Renaissance hero. The Jove story is a touching affair in which ugly Cyrano's gallant words win beautiful Mala Powers for his handsome but tongue-tied friend. Only at the end of the movie, alas too late, does Miss Powers aealize the great-nosed Cyrano is theman she should have loved.* * *.■Academy Award winner Broderick Crawford plays a rough and ready police detective in “The Mob/’; a drama at the Rialto about a cold crew of killers that clamps a stranglehold on the waterfront.Assigned to a murder that is linked to the waterfront rackets, . Crawford masquerades as a dock worker ana worms his way into the mob’s confidence. He establishes a reputation as a strong-arm man and -gunman and is hired to commit a murder. The intendedvictim turns out to be himself.Some new makeup gimmicks involving lens filters are used in changing Louis Hayward from a man into a monster in “The Son ofDr. Jekyll/’ the Rialto cofeature,Hayward plays the son of the famous split personality created by -Robert Louis Stevenson and played at various times by Richard ' Mansfield. John Barrymore, Frederic March, and Spencer Tracy.
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Phoenix Arizona Republic
Phoenix, Arizona, US
Sun, Dec 02, 1951
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