Word: ibsenism
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...throws an axe at his wife. Jim Clancy jumps off the pier at low tide. It rains and rains. Finally the local member of the Dail Eireann, an odd character who looks part penguin, part shellfish (Ralph Cullinan), is moved by his recollection of a performance of Playwright Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People to vote against the Government and force a new election. That is enough for the town's hotelkeeper and political boss, played by the best Irishman in the cast, Whitford Kane. He throws the actors out of their theatre and ends morbidity...
...both the bride's parents. The diva arrives with a lot of theatrical riffraff, the daughter cools to her fiance, but the parents are happily reunited as the curtain falls. The diva is impersonated by Blanche Yurka, a seasoned actress who has of late years specialized in Ibsen. Greek tragedy and was one of the Narrators in Lucrece. The playwright is the author of The Cradle Song and The Kingdom of God. Astute Producer Beckhard presented last season's hilarious Goodbye Again. None of these can expect much credit from such an inconsequential production as Spring in Autumn...
...Hendrik Ibsen is Mr. Gilbert's favorite playwright...
...SINCE IBSEN-George Jean Nathan -Knopf ($1.55). Collected scraps about the stage...
...Scandinavian Drama--Ibsen," Professor Murray, Harvard...