Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Male Animal (by James Thurber & Elliott Nugent) got the spring season at Manhattan's City Center* off to a very happy start. For what was never much of a play, The Male Animal seems, after twelve years, remarkably engaging entertainment. In chronicling the academic and domestic woes of a mild-mannered English professor, Nugent kept the stagecraft under enough control for Thurber to make all else seem delightfully muddled and periodically...
...domestic comedy, The Male Animal snapshots some familiar poses, strikes some reminiscent chords. Elliott Nugent plays the professor as winningly as he did twelve years ago, Martha Scott is helpful as his wife, and Cinemactor Robert Preston is fine as the just short of half-witted onetime halfback. But what raises the play a full notch or more is its infectious nonsense. It sufficiently portrays the male animal in relation to the female, but it exhibits him even more as a leading specimen in the cosmic...
...roommate had departed for the reunion at 8:30, leaving Elliott P. Willoughby seated unhappily on his bed facing the open window, making victorious little Awk noises to himself...
Shouts of comradely laughter wafted into the room on the evening breeze. Above it all occasionally rose the strains of "Das Drunkenschpeil" or some other merry tune by Schneider's Silver Cornet Band. From the sound of it, there was a pretty big crowd. About six hundred, Elliott guessed. People who hadn't seen each other since freshman year...
...stretched out across the bed and just lay there, the hot tears dribbling down onto his pillow. Stubbornness was the master of Elliott P. Willoughby...