With the plodding thoroughness of Henry James developing a character in fourteen chapters, Playwright Robert Sherwood as director of "Adam-Had Four Sons" has made it into a psychological dissection of an upperclass family during the last war. Warner Baxter, stouter than in his matinee idol days but still a portrayer of semi-phlegmatic emotion, acts the bachelor-ed broker whose love for his housekeeper (Ingrid Bergman) is disturbed by her suspicious actions in protecting him from knowledge of the unfaithfulness of his daughter-in-law. Susan Hayward looks, as well as plays, the part of the scheming minx who loves her in-law a little more than the legal requirements, thus producing a temporary hexagon rather than the standard eternal triangle. Without the zip of double-entendre dialogue or the oomph of a Lampy "wham" girl, the show is straight drama-a welcome relief from Hollywood's recent obsession with boudoir repartee.

In the second feature Lloyd Nolan as Detective Michael Shayne approaches a photo-finish with Lew Ayres in running a once-good idea into the ground. "Sleepers West," which had them snoozing in the other three sectors of the compass as well, will not be missed when replaced by the second Sneak Preview of the year on Tuesday.