Word: vanderhofs
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Dates: during 1936-1936
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...grown any younger since Pyramus & Thisbe. So theatrically threadbare is this narrative scheme that it takes an ignited dish of red fire to bring down the first act curtain, an off-stage explosion to close Act II. These punctuations are, however, not really necessary for in creating Grandpa Vanderhof (Henry Travers) and his clan -the Girl's family which the Boy's family views with alarm-the playwrights have conjured a species of dramatis personae which transcends plot, bursts the bonds of the established theatre and mounts into the stratosphere of great literary lunacy...
...morning 35 years before the curtain rises on You Can't Take It With You, Grandpa Martin Vanderhof arrived at his office building, rode upstairs on the elevator and rode down again. Grandpa had had enough. Thenceforth, he devoted his entire attention to witnessing commencements, visiting zoos, raising snakes, collecting stamps and taking it easy. He encouraged his household to do likewise, with the result that his son-in-law Sycamore took up Meccano and manufacturing fireworks, his daughter (Josephine Hull) turned to painting, then to playwriting when someone left a typewriter at the house by mistake. Grandpa...