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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Saturday, June 5, 1948

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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 05, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Bill Ronald Reagan is concerned because Sally Eleanor Parker says she has lost her Faith in love wont try again of the me the successful Broadway play has been turned into an attractive screen show the voice of the Turtle John a n Druten a delightful Little stage whimsy on wartime morals has become Only slightly less delightful in its adaptation to the screen. Within the limits allowed him by the Hayes censorship office Warner Brothers producer Charles Hoffman has done a Good Job of capturing the atmosphere of the stolen weekend Between Bill the Soldier on leave and Sally the ingenuous Young actress who has lost Faith in love. Unfortunately Hayes frowned at what actually formed the Basic Point of the Story. In the original Bill spends his first night in Sally s apartment on the Couch in the dining room when a rainstorm strands him with her. But on the second night when she invites him to stay on the Couch again he declines an d starts to leave because he realizes he really loves her. At this Point Sally agrees she is also attracted to him they have an affair and her Faith in love is restored. In the More contrived him version How Ever Sally allows Bill to leave on the second night and their relationship is sustained on the More ephemeral and less convincing level of a love at first sight affair. However Ronald Reagan plays Bill with sympathy and just the  of worldliness to carry the part. And if Eleanor Parker does not look quite As sensitive As her part seems to demand that May just be because All actresses Are not As ingenuous As Sally. 20 weekend Juke 5. 1w, "1 Olive eve Ardena Broadway actress is in a quandary when an of  
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