Mrs. McThing (by Mary Chase) reveals the author of Harvey in her accustomed whimsical mood. But though Mrs. Chase's fancy leaps, her stagecraft stumbles and shuffles; and though the playwright bangs about on a broomstick, what the play really needs is a broom.
Mrs. McThing tells of a rich woman (Helen Hayes) whose efforts to turn her young son (Brandon de Wilde) into Little Lord Fauntleroy have made him even more of a Peck's Bad Boy. With the help of a witch named Mrs. McThing, the son has been whisked to a dive operated by mobsters, and a perfect little gentleman has...
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