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Word: chucklehead (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1938-1938
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...star was Comedienne Ruth Gordon, who made a great success last season in Wycherley's scandalous Country Wife. She plays Nora in .4 Doll's House as a childlike, skipping chucklehead, a unique individual rather than the social type Ibsen meant her to symbolize, thus helps transform the play from an outmoded indictment into a moving character study. As Nora's complacent spouse, Dennis King, hero of operettas, farces and romantic dramas, plays Ibsen as well as he sings Lehar and Friml. For all of Torvald's prissy traits, Actor King makes him pitiable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Old Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 10, 1938 | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

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