Word: minick
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...MINICK-America, middle class. The grinding jealousy of little things when an old man comes to live with his daughter's family...
...MINICK-A microscope on middle-class life which insists that youth and age are incompatible...
...MINICK-Proving that an old man blends better with old men than with lower-middle-class rigidity of his son's "in laws...
Edna Ferber originally wrote this chonicle as a short story-Old Man Minick. George S. Kaufman (coauthor of Dulcy, Merton, Beggar on Horseback, etc.) helped her turn it into a play. Between them they very nearly did a masterpiece. The play is amusing, deeply touching in spots, but overshoots the mark by a too tenacious realism. The characters are types rather than individuals. The detail becomes too authentic...
Critics disagreed over the performance of O. P. Heggie as Minick. Some said he caught completely the blithe spirit of the old man who upset the household by staying too long in the bathroom mornings. Others averred that he "photographed" the character instead of painting it with the sure stroke of a creator. Phyllis Povah, on the other hand, was credited with the most distinguished work of her not undistinguished career. The rest of the cast, the atmosphere and the direction were judged satisfactory...