Word: birde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Faithfully Yours (by L. Bush-Fekete & Mary Helen Fay; produced by Richard W. Krakeur) is one of those bits of fluff that are also fiends of dullness. It concerns a psychoanalyst who persuades a bird-brained wife that there is something unhealthy about her happy marriage and faithful husband. The worst thing about the play isn't that it never comes within hailing distance of satire, but that it is altogether stupefying as farce. And to the claptrap of Broadway, Movie Actors Ann Sothern and Robert Cummings add all the coyness of Hollywood...
...second exhibition, "Masterpieces of Chinese Bird and Flower Painting," will open in the Oriental section of Fogg October 30. There will be close to 40 paintings in the display, which will cover the period from the Sung to the Ching dynasties...
...bolted it to the rear of his car and set forth. The honking stopped. Last week, as a final test, he drove through clangorous Manhattan. Even there, the sign worked. Philpot sighed with relief, and set out in his self-made zone of silence for New England, listening to bird calls and watching wordless, honkless Yankees goggle as he swept by. Philpot's sign: "Hoot Away-It's Your Ulcer...
...does little to enliven it. The trouble with the book isn't just that it is old or uninspired, but that it is so painfully omnipresent. Music in the Air intrudes no clever lyrics, displays no chorus line, offers no dance numbers. This makes it as rare a bird among musicals generally as it is among Swiss ones for containing no yodelers...
...Eliot House senior, gobbling down his entree last Friday; almost choked on a metal band. He brushed off the band, found that it had the legend "ASS. R.O.P. 95 M 6" stamped on it, and concluded that a banded migrating bird had innocently flown into the central kitchen and been foully done...