Jean Kerr is a skillful playwright, a brilliant wit and one of the most charming and delightful women in the world. All of those qualities have gone into her new comedy, "Finishing Touches,"… and I think it is almost certain to be the latest Broadway success. But, as much as I enjoyed it …, I had a few reservations about its effectiveness.

It is funny, it is wise and it is believable in characterizations and story. It also has the virtue of getting better as it goes along, and it is making one of those comparisons that Constable Dogberry found "odorous" to say that I felt it was less satisfactory than Mrs. Kerr's wonderful previous comedy, "Poor Richard."…

The story isn't the strong point of "Finishing Touches." Its merit lies in Mrs. Kerr's gift for humor and shrewd observation of character, and the warm-heartedness that brightens everything she writes...