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Hers to Hold (Universal) is another example of the high artfulness whereby Universal has inched its best-paying property, Diva Deanna Durbin, from girlish charm to full-blown love interest. This installment concerns Miss Durbin's fruitless infatuation for a gay, non-marrying Flying Tiger (Joseph Gotten), and it has the profitable merit of leaving Deanna still single, her fans still breathlessly awaiting their singing star's cinemarriage. Petter managed than usual are Miss Durbin's opportunities to break into song. As noon-hour entertainment for workers in an effectively photographed West Coast airplane factory, she sings the Kashmiri Song, the Seguidilla from Carmen, and the topical, not very catchy Say a Pray'r for the Boys Over There.

We've Never Been Licked (Universal) plants a bright new thumbtack on Hollywood's regional map of collegiate cinemilieus. To football-famed Texas A. & M. from the faraway Philippines comes one Brad Craig (Richard Quine). He finds hazing a dreadful ordeal, but finally decides to stick it out. Brad is assigned by a chemistry professor to guard a secret formula; it is mysteriously stolen and he is bounced out on his ear. By way of Tokyo he eventually gets to Midway and wins the Congressional Medal of Honor for helping to destroy a Japanese aircraft carrier. Death finally comes to Brad in a spectacularly heroic manner--none too soon either.

Let's Face It (Paramount) is an anemic version of the successful Broadway musical in which Danny Kaye's double-talk singing and double-jointed posturings brought down the house two years ago. Although Bob Hope is in the driver's seat, the only house likely to be brought down by the movie is an Army canteen which suffers a direct hit by a Hope-driven jeep. Other antics center around a country weekend crisis when three cutie-accompanied husbands meet up with their three draftee-accompanied wives. Throaty Betty Hutton provides a diversion with a machine-gun-speed offering of Let's Not Talk About Love.

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