The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Nov. 17, 1947

For Love or Money (by F. Hugh Herbert; produced by Barnard Straus) was kept from becoming a minor Broadway debacle through a Broadway debut. Day after the opening of this knickknack by the author of Kiss and Tell, a shower of glittering adjectives ("captivating," "enchanting," "beguiling") descended on gay, winsome, 22-year-old blonde Ingenue June Lockhart (daughter of stage & screen's Gene and Kathleen Lockhart). Already nicely launched in Hollywood (All This and Heaven Too, Meet Me in St. Louis'), June is pretty certainly Broadway's young thing of the year.

The comedy she brightens has her seeking shelter, during a thunderstorm, in...

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