Springville Herald | 1946-05-16 | Page 3 | "Sailor Takes a Wife" Gay Comedy of First Week of Married Life

"Sailor Takes A Wife" Gay Comedy of First Week Of Married Life The trials and tribulations of a newly-married couple provide laughter and poignant moments alike in "The Sailor Takes a Wife," which opens Sunday on the Rivoli screen. With Robert Walker as the sailor, sail-or, and June Allyson as the wife, the picture tells the heartwarming heartwarm-ing story of the two falling in love at first sight after their meeting at a New York canteen. Thinking they have little; time left, the couple are married by a justice of the peace and set up housekeeping in an unfurnishd brownstone apartment. Much to Walker's chagrin, he is given a medical discharge and finds himself him-self looking for a job. The hundred and one petty little lit-tle disagreements and disappointments disappoint-ments that beset the path of new-lywed new-lywed are aggravated in this case by the appearance of a fascinating fascinat-ing Roumanian refugee, Audrey Totter, who has the apartment below. be-low. When a meeting between Walker and Miss Totter for the purpose of introducing him to a would-be employed results in his returning home covered with lipstick, lip-stick, the lid blows off on Walker's Walk-er's domestic household, and it takes a deal of plotting and placating pla-cating before husband and wife are reconciled.