Word: brathood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Except for Sonny's moments of inspired brathood and tantrums, the only really bright, vital character is an extremely likable boy who appears in Act II to take the reluctant Reenie to a dance. He commits suicide before Act III. Depressing as this may be, it is the strongest act in the play, and it brings into sharp focus an otherwise loosely meandering world...
...heart may or may not be breaking, but whose voice unquestionably is. Harrison Muller is a show-stopper as the superior Yaleman who breezes in for a visit in his Winton 6. But various long-suffering grown-ups just go through stock-company motions, and that great pioneer in brathood, Willie's kid sister Jane, today seems just another brat. Ann Crowley, who is a pleasant enough ingenue as Lola, seldom becomes Tarkington's baby-talking, beau-snatching vamp, at once a young man's dream and everyone else's nightmare...
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