In "Holiday" no Longer a "Zasu Pitts in Pants"
The role of college professor is lush with comic opportunities of the absent-minded—"where-on-earth-are-(business of finding them parked on the forehead) genre. That's why it's all the more remarkable to find Edward Everett Horton, of all people, playing a straight college professor Suddenly a new Horton is hatched -a Horton without a double-take-em to his name, without grimaces or mock shudders, a. Horton ait thetic dignity, and—crowning we der—a Horton married to a wife v respects his manly feelings.
The Horton in question is the Horton who! plays Professor Nick Potter in Columbia's film version of the Philip Barry stage success, "Holi day," which, ce-s Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. Jean Dixon is Mrs. Potter, and though the two give comedy its due value, scenarists Donald Ogden Stewart and Sidney Buchman and director George Cukor have allowed them a few moments of ordinary human seriousness.
All of which, to the Horton cognoscenti, is not so much actually a matter of a brand-new Horton as it is a reversion to the old—to the Horton of the stock-company phase who played everything from glamerous hero to Simon Legree, and occasionally toyed wilh the thought that some day he might even do Othello."
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