You Can't Take It with You | The Sensible Insanities of You Can't Take It with You
In this review that first appeared in the New York Evening Post, December 15 and 19, 1936, Brown praises the lighthearted nature of You Can't Take It with You.
In a world in which the sanity usually associated with sunshine is sadly overvalued, You Can't Take It With You is something to be prized. It is moonstruck, almost from beginning to end. It is blessed with all the happiest lunacies Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman have been able to contribute to it. The Sycamore family is the most gloriously mad group of contented eccentrics the modern theatre has yet had the good fortune to shadow. Its various members comprise a whole nest of Mad Hatters. They are daffy mortals, as lovable as they are laughable. Their whims are endless....
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