The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Nov. 9, 1953

A Girl Can Tell (by F. Hugh Herbert) finds the author of Kiss and Tell and The Moon Is Blue at the same old stand, but with greatly lowered standing. In A Girl Can Tell, Playwright Herbert, still concerned with discreetly amorous young girls, is still dallying with dalliance, still writing under the sign of Virgo in the spirit of Capricorn. But this time his hand is tired, and his touch seems coarse.

This time a teen-ager's mother leafs back through her memory book to the scenes of her girlhood. In the old days (1936)....

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