Word: duckings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lines of a Duck. "There was no place in the family point of view for failure," says Agnes, in describing her childhood. Her mother was the daughter of Henry George, the renowned Single-Taxer, her father had been a noted playwright since the age of 25, and Uncle Cecil was by his own admission the best director in Hollywood. So when Agnes begged leave to study for a career in dancing, the favor was granted-but only, said her mother, on condition that she become another Pavlova...
...Wild Duck (by Henrik Ibsen) opened the annual winter season at Manhattan's City Center. It also opened the door to a musty attic. Under the dust and cobwebs that shroud Ibsen's classic, there may still lie something vital. But far from uncovering it, the present production treasures every cobweb...
...Wild Duck, the archrealist Ibsen conceded-long before O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh-that men need illusions to survive. The Ekdal family are happy so long as Hialmar Ekdal is ignorant of his wife's past and the true paternity of his child. Ibsen's exposure of Gregers Werle, the meddling idealist who enlightens Hialmar in the name of truth, is merciless. But his portrayal of flabby, feckless, self-excusing Hialmar is hardly less...
...Three two-week productions of the New York City Drama Festival: Ibsen's The Wild Duck, with Maurice Evans and Diana Lynn; Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie, with Celeste Holm; Clemence Dane's Come of Age, with Judith Anderson...
...least 25 people were injured stumbling through its gloom; King George VI had to cancel a trip to the theater-his first evening out since his operation three months ago; greyhound racing at the White City was abandoned because dogs couldn't see the hare; and a mallard duck flying blind over central London slammed into Victoria Station and crash-landed on No. 6 platform...