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When a play is going to consider the implications of what little boys and girls do at five in the morning when Papa is asleep, it is generally sophisticated or moral. Debut attempts, and fails, to be the former, and has a careless disregard for the latter. The result is an innocuous bit of piddle, diffuse in conception and dull in execution...
Oliva Dionne, father of Canada's famed quintuplets, called an unwonted press conference last week in the $60,000 house that his daughters' income built at Corbeil, Ont. "The quints did not come home for Christmas," Papa Dionne announced sadly. "We didn't even receive a card from them. They didn't write; they didn't phone. We have realized for some months that they have been drifting away ... we decided it would be better if we didn't try to camouflage things any longer...
...Montreal, where the four surviving quints, Yvonne, Annette, Marie and Cecile, are living (Emilie died in 1954), Papa Dionne's statement set off a flurry of explanations. "We sent a Christmas card," snapped Yvonne. "Is it our fault if they didn't get it?" Later it was reported that the quints had intended all along to go home for New Year's, the traditional French-Canadian day for giftgiving. Finally, the sisters' financial adviser, Lawrence Edwards, of the Guaranty Trust Co. of Canada, offered a fuller explanation. "For the first time in their lives, the quints...
Even after Papa Dionne's public outburst, the quints resolutely went on living their own lives. They dodged in and out of their apartment, successfully bypassing swarms of newsmen and photographers. One night late in the week, three of them slipped out to a car, then drove 300 miles to Corbeil to patch up the family quarrel. The mission was successful; the three girls (Marie was ailing) were received with kisses and joyful tears and Papa Dionne announced that the whole sorry uproar was nothing but a misunderstanding...
...escape the sonsofbitches and the only choice you got is between sonsofbitches." Does the Hemingway manner work? Paraphrasing the remark Churchill is supposed to have made to his son Randolph ("Haven't you learned yet that I put more into my speeches than brandy?"), Papa Hemingway might well remind young (30) Novelist Hoffman that more goes into a Hemingway novel than just barrack-room talk...