CINEMA
44 Cheaper by the Dozen." (Odeon.j..-■---" Champagne for Caesar."
(London Pavilion..)--" Prelude to Fame." (Gaumont and Marble Arch Pavilion.) Miss MYRNA LOY is renowned for her humour and matter-of- factness, her sophistication and charm. She can get away with almost any part from Cleopatra to a cowgirl. Nevertheless, it is absolutely impossible to conceive of her as the mother of twelve— yes, twelve. As a matter of fact, it is fairly difficult to conceive of anyone as the mother of twelve ; but surely, in Hollywood's large and ample bosom, there must be somebody who would come nearer the pattern of maternity than Miss Loy ? And, indeed, someone who would come nearer the paternal pattern than Mr. Clifton Webb ? In Cheaper by the Dozen these two strive, in an exaggerated over-emphasised way, to emulate the parental charm of I Remember Mama's stars, but as Mr Webb is an eccentric joke and Miss by evidently fed to the back teeth with the whole thing, and as their offspring are too numerous to be anything but amorphous, they, to put it mildly, fail in their endeavour. Directed by Mr. Walter Lang in Technicolor, this comedy is a desert of wasted talent, and one is far more inclined to weep than laugh. However, no doubt this picture will be seen by a vast horde of people, for it has, as a prologue. A Day in the Life of Brumas. Much can be borne for a bear.
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