Word: muldoonism
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...course of The Sin of Pat Muldoon, playwright John McLiam has the hero reach through the window of his Santa Clara, California, home to pluck an orange from a tree growing in the back yard. Somewhat later he informs the audience that redwoods grow along the town's main street. I am prepared to testify that in my ten years' residence in the San Francisco Bay Area I have not seen a single orange tree there, and that no redwoods stand in the center of Santa Clara. It would, though, be a pleasure to forgive Mr. McLiam his horticultural inaccuracies...
...most of the last act of The Doctor's Dilemma. Possibly acting on the theory that he could prove himself a greater playwright than Shaw, McLiam has put together a death scene that lasts for three out of three acts and that gives James Barton, who plays Pat Muldoon, the opportunity to die not once, but twice. For a play which makes some claim to be a comedy, this is all pretty grim...
...ghoulish affair is inhabited by some appropriately unpleasant characters. The above mentioned hero, Pat Muldoon, is an impecunious Irish immigrant and tree surgeon whose sin consists of selling the last remaining bit of family property--perhaps symbolically, a back alley--and spending the money on a spree. Mr. Barton's performance in the role is a little incoherent, a fact which may be excused on the grounds that the cute little Irishisms and maunderings about the homeland which he is called upon to utter must have proved thoroughly repulsive to an actor of his stature and experience...
...porch, where he sat down, delivered a homespun talk on the high cost of living, ending with Nancy arriving to reclaim the forgotten groceries ("You were a big help, Guv!"), bantered farm problems over the back fence with Estes Kefauver, cavorted about a well-clipped lawn with his dog Muldoon (who chewed the lapel off a soundman's jacket). Said Film-Maker Herschell Lewis: "The attempt is to make the viewer realize that Stevenson is actually like the guy next door...
Theme of the weekend will be "Unified Ireland," according to parade marshall D. Woodbury Cudhea, present King of the Irish Free State in Cambridge. Secondary marshalls will be Edward J. Coughlin, Phillip M. Cronin, and John R. Murphy, while assisting marshalls are Muldoon S. Gwirtzman, D. Levy Halberstam, Sean D. Rivkin, and Michael O'Finkelstein. CRIMSON LAMPOON Aprons, c. Updike, c Cowlick, 1f. Updike, 1f Fatling, 1b Updike, 1b Cuddly, rf Updike, rf Gris, 2b Updike, 2b Basso, ss Updike, ss Gwirtzy, 3b Updike, 3b Hum II, cf Updike, cf Magpic, p Schwartz...