THE HARVEY GIRLS
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HIS film is aée tribute, musical as well as Technicoloured, to the civilising influence of well-cooked food, clean table linen, and virtuous
"ss women. The production is dedicated to the enterprise of one Fred Harvey who apparently assisted the opening up of America’s West by founding a chain of restaurants along the advancing railroad lines and stocking them with good food and good women, thereby counteracting indigestion among the travellers and vice among the permanent inhabitants of the frontier towns ("If Harvey comes, can civilisation be far behind?" reads the foreword, or something to that effect). Curiously enough, this dedication is followed immediately by the customary announcement that any resemblance in the film to real persons, institutions or firms, is purely coincidental; so we don’t quite know where we are in the matter of authenticity. You may be better advised therefore to regard the whole thing not so much as history but rather as a fairly enjoyable though too protracted frolic in which Miss Judy Garland and the rest of the Harvey waitresses seek to persuade Mr. John Hodiak and the other cowboys of Sandrock to "give up a wild time in favour of a good time." Miss Angela Lansbury, who "entertains" at the Alhambra Saloon, acts as the chief exponent of sin, and it is certainly a sin the way she acts.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 372, 9 August 1946, Page 13
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227THE HARVEY GIRLS New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 372, 9 August 1946, Page 13
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