| Show Jo Lad Lady Triumphs in inI inI inI I Remember Mama Capturing with charm and realism the hilarious tribulations tribulation of a courageous family Radio brings to the screen an adaptation of John Van Druten smash hit I Mama at the Egyptian theatre Sunday and Monday Irene Dunn is the Indomitable Mama of the title lead Head of a teeming household household house house- hold and harassed by a clan of problem relatives relative she pilots pilote her brood through vicissitudes which would wreck many another She ehe also allO guides a limping ro romance romance romance ro- ro mance to the altar arranges arrange her daughters daughter's daughters daughter's daughters daughter's daugh daugh- ter's career wallops the family budget Into working order and buoys buoy up the morale of all concerned starring Co-starring with Miss MIllS Dunne are Darbara Barbara Del Bel Oscar Homolka and Philip Dorn Featured are Sir Edgar Bergen Rudy V Vallee lee and anti Barbara Ibara ONeill The production Is U Isby Uby by George Stevens Stevena Harriet Parsons as producer and screen play by DeWitt Bodeen This picture directed by George Stevens Is presented by Dore Schary Behary production head for RICO i Mamas h household 0 use h 0 I d consists of Papa Dorn Jonathan Hyde Hard liard-I liard i a hammy n whose rent Is always but whose contribution to the education of the household fenot is fe not purchasable In money Katrin Miss MIllS Del Bel derides Geddes daughter Christine Peggy McIntyre youngest daughter Dagmar Juno June and son Nels Nele Steve eteve Drown Brown and antt Uncle Elizabeth an adopted adopted ted alley cat Also ruled by Mamas mailed fist in the velvet glove are THE AUNTS disliked disliked dis die liked by Mamas children considered rank fools tools by Papa They are Aunt Trina Ellen Corby lovable whispery spinster Aunt Jenny Hope llope Landin and Aunt Sigrid Edith Evanson The latter two are given to intrusion and to superior poses pose They are baffled only by I Uncle Chris Homolka a 1 ferocious ferocious- i seeming Viking whose kindliness Is ln- ln i known by the children and antt whoso whose are aro never discovered by anybody except the perceptive Mama Mr a mild mannered un 1 Edgar Bergen Is 11 suitor for forthe forthe forthe the fluttering hand of Aunt Trina For a while he is frustrated by the terrible weight of the two hostile aunts' aunts ridi ridi- cule But Dut ho he captures the meca Trina unaware that Mama has stymied Interference Interference Interference Inter Inter- ference by a threat of ot disclosing some law in-law family skeletons Throughout Christine's desperate Ill Illness Illness Ill Ill- ness Katrin's extravagant yearnings Mr Hydes Hyde's financial lapses and antt Papas low Income the knowledge that Mamas account in the bank town down-town is 11 al al- al ways there to tide tlde them over gives the children hope and the ups grown-ups cour cour- age That they never have to w tap It it Is due to their ability to muddle through each emergency as It arises When Katrin's stories sell and she is the amazed recipient of a big check the family rejoicing urge Mama to put tho the money along with the rest In her ber account and antt it Is only then revealed that Mama never had hatt an account The mythical backlog has served Its purpose has has Inspired a sense of security and I strength en I |
