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...others arrive. The chef is a narrow-eyed old-timer who minds his peas and cutlets. The fish cook (Carl Mohner) is a burly young German bursting with aggressive force, manic charm, balked ambition and jealous lust for a pretty, flirty waitress (Mary Yeomans). The butcher is a steady boozer who loathes the "lousy forriners'' he works with and keeps squalling:' "Speak bloody English!" The vegetable cook is a soiled blimp who waggles her massive breasts at the salad chef but insists that the lower echelons observe the proper necking order. The proprietor is a muttering overfed...
...prayer. All he had was money, made by buying up Continental dollars for pennies when most people thought they would become worthless. Overnight a man of affairs instead of a lowly leather dresser, he was still despised by the other well-to-do. He was uncouth, uneducated, a prodigious boozer and a shameless wencher. His wife was a shrew, his son a boor, his poor daughter none too bright and also addicted to the bottle. Dexter bought the finest house in town, and sat in it spitting tobacco juice on the carpets and getting drunk every night...
Soon the only human left in sight is Olivier, muffling his usual heroic style to play-in what the London Times described as "a performance of infinite finesse"*-a mild little boozer who does not agree with the new rhinos that "once civilization is swept away, we shall all feel better." When even the woman in his life becomes a snorting rhinoceros, his own defeat seems close at hand. But he finds the courage to resist rhinocerization...
...modern classic, Juno and the Paycock is fashioned around characters who escape the last-act curtain and become dramatic immortals like Hamlet, Tartuffe, and St. Joan. Captain Boyle, the strutting Paycock, is a Homeric boozer, braggart and whine. With a sea-rolling gait and a gravelly brogue, Melvyn Douglas makes him an amiably puckish buffoon but scarcely a Dublin Falstaff. O'Casey's Juno has a spiny tongue for her shiftless husband, but she is also an Earth Mother of Sorrows. Her unmarried daughter becomes pregnant; her son loses an arm to the British and his life...
...come from it's no disgrace to get drunk. It's an achievement." Followed by a horde of slum urchins begging sixpence ("Their standard of living has gone up with mine; they used to be content with pennies"), his florid, stocky figure heads out for the boozer before n a.m. He "gargles" whisky and porter the rest of the day, while heaving beguiling blarney to friends and freeloaders: "Do you know I'm a shareholder in the Daily Worker? But I can't afford to write for it-I write for Vogue instead." At times...