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Miss Stanley still hasn't arived in Act I, Scene II, and we see instead a family reunion of all the Freuds. With the hugging and kissing, one is reminded of the Trapp Family Singers. But after that, the play settles down to an effective depiction of Freud's first psycho-analysis and his struggles to have his theories accepted...
...Idlewild International Airport. There was the young man bound for Warsaw to the bedside of his cancer-ridden mother, the teen-age wife of a Europe-based serviceman making her first flight, the pregnant young wife of another overseas G.I., the middle-aged priest going to Brussels for a reunion with his parents, the tourists brimming with language books and visions of Notre Dame and Rimini, the comfortably tired Brussels businessman...
...sound track at appropriate moments float snatches of martial music, and after B-day ("our finest hour"), many a brave mug's eye is misty as he bids his mates farewell. Happily, the well-mannered British police, always ready to give quod pro quid, arrange for a touching reunion of The League-in quarters provided by Her Majesty...
...anniversary in the theater of Actress Peggy Wood (Bittersweet, Blithe Spirit), ANTA last week collected round her most of the remaining members of the much-chronicled Algonquin Round Table. The late great wits were missing, of course-Alexander Woollcott, Franklin P. Adams, Robert Benchley, Herman Mankiewicz-and, significantly, the reunion was held not at the old rear-center table in the Rose Room of the Algonquin but in the grand ballroom of Manhattan's Hotel Edison, five blocks and 90 light-years away. The most notable living absentees were George S. Kaufmann, who is ill, and Dorothy Parker...
Through the Fields of Clover is concerned, more or less, with What Is Happening to the Sanctity of the American Divorce. A nice old Massachusetts couple decide to celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary with a family reunion. All of their sons and daughters have been divorced at least once, and what with all the stepparents and stepchildren, the affair threatens to become the merriest Old Broken Home Week you ever...