MISS ANNIE ROONEY
(United Artists)
[N which Miss Shirley Temple appears in what the advertisements call her first grown-up role, quotes Romeo and Juliet, gazes at the stars. makes mem-
bers of the audience feel either indul- | gent or a little sick, and does her best to lug along a cast as dull as yesterday’s scones and a story as improbable as the discovery of six pairs of new silk stockings that your wife didn’t know she had. It’s really too bad. They don’t give this bright young creature a chance. They used to give her stories (and dances, and songs) that were, at the least, entertaining; and once they gave her Victor McLaglen as leading man (though once-or was it twice?-they gave her John Boles!) Nowadays, they make her either a Poor Little Rich Girl who can’t make contact with the dear poor folk, or a Rich Little Poor Girl (whose wealth is in her sunny disposition), who can’t make contact with the desirable rich folk; they don’t bother to let her sing; and they only let her use her feet to jitterbug. Pretty? Yes, Miss Shirley Temple is still pretty; she’s still dimpled; and she still gives me the idea that we'll be seeing her and liking seeing-her, for a good many years to come. " This particular dish offers us the Rooneys, grandfather, father, and daughter, as a happy family above whom the spectre of penury waggles a warning finger. Father Rooney has soaked up all grandfather Rooney’s savings in harebrained schemes-"It wasn’t a_harebrained scheme. How was I to know the gold mine would spring a leak and let in the seas?"--and now he has a stoopendous, a revolutionary, a_ sure-fire fortune-making idea, but grandpop just can’t agree that there might be a chance of milking rubber from seaweed. . . and only just in the last 99th foot a slight mistake in the chemical formula turns a stinking mess into a miraculous rubber substitute, recalls the furniture-removers from the very pavement, and presents Miss Annie Rooney and her beau with the chance to hold hands some more and quote Romeo and Juliet some more.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 210, 2 July 1943, Page 21
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355MISS ANNIE ROONEY New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 210, 2 July 1943, Page 21
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