Word: suspenseless
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Dates: during 1947-1947
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...plot is slight and suspenseless, and not steered with-much skill. It is the professor, with his crotchets, jokes and advice, that gives the play a fitful animation; and an assortment of minor characters, most of them fellow-warriors of the colonel, that give it color and geniality. They keep popping in & out, seldom doing anything more striking than singing songs, drinking toasts, dabbling in the past, dreaming toward the future. But they frequently do all these things in a gay and human fashion, and occasionally their war experiences give the characters an unexpected third dimension...