Word: duck
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Entertainment on the stage (or for that matter in the aisles or in a public square or where you will) is fundamentally a story embroidered with movement, color and contrast. Judged by this standard (you can apply the same standard to "The Wild Duck" or "Ladies of the Evening") I am not sure that Mr. Dos Passos has truly succeeded. Nevertheless his story is essentially a corking good love story. The treatment sometimes slights the intensely, human and physical aspects of this story. But the lovers are very real people trying to make a hard reality out of the limp...
...WILD DUCK-Ibsen's curse upon idealism in an admirably portrayed revival...
...WILD DUCK-One of the modern masterpieces receives full meed of excellent acting. It proves the futility of idealism...
...ways in which he might make history; that the salt, pepper and sugar in his camp's cookhouses were drawn down between the tables by four-horse teams while tens of thousands of ravenous lumberjacks bounced on their benches for joy at the smell of the great Black Duck dinner cooked by Hot Biscuit Slim; that Johnny Inkslinger, Bunyan's scribe, slept only three hours each week and had 25 barrels of ink hooked up by hoses to his fountain pen; that Great Salt Lake came to be when Paul Bunyan hewed down the stone-tree forests...
...WILD DUCK−Mr. Ibsen receives what he deserves−a good performance...