Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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THIS book is a cunning exposition of the love life between a Frenchman and a Marmoset. Its esoteric appeal will be at once evident by the following quotation. "Me. I am hees muzzaire, hees seestaire, le consort of hees soul, le angel of his destinay! she declaimed passionately." Here in a few words is a compact, clear, concordance of the incest theme, inherited through Racine from the great Greeks. The French with their superior sensibility for inferring symbolically the heart of the situation, substitute here a small animal, a marmoset, for the loved one, thereby reducing the horror...
There can be no question as to the merit of Blanche Yurka's production of "The Wild Duck". From start to finish it is admirably set forth. Well cast, well staged, and with somewhat more of real life instilled into it through fine directing than is the lot of most Ibsen plays, it deserves the praise which all those who have seen it have showered upon...
...Ibsen's plays this seemed to us to run the most smoothly, to give the most semblance of a real slice of life; sordid, yes, but still smacking more of some possible truth than most of the products of this despondent Norseman. Other Ibsen dramas have always left the impression of extreme morbidity, with a moral to be learned, but shown in a most unconvincing tale. This tale stands cross examination better. All this is due, no doubt, to Miss Yurka's presentation. In less skilled hands. "The Wild Duck" could easily be produced as no more than another Ibsen...
...Marie (Mich.) News, some 17 years ago, Homer Guck was running two smalltown newspapers nearby, the Houghton Mining Gazette, the Calumet News. The young editors were friends, newstraders. When their ways parted, Col. Knox went to Mr. Hearst's chainpapers, Publisher Guck to Detroit to learn insurance (Detroit Life) and banking (Union Trust Co.), to make a reputation,as a city-booster...
...forced to marry he deserts penniless. But in New York he is publicized the way the public likes its champions: "Just a kid; that's all he is; a regular boy. . . . Don't know the meanin' o' bad habits. Never tasted liquor in his life and would prob'bly get sick if he smelled it. Clean livin' put him up where...