Word: wilds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...WILD DUCK?The driving power of Ibsen in an anti-idealistic drama said to be a satire on the playwright's own life story...
...Roosevelts-Kermit and Theordore Jr.-who had planned to make an incursion into Turkestan to hunt wild animals for the Field Museum of Chicago (TIME, Mar. 16), suffered a set-back in their plans because the Viceroy of India objected that a large Swedish party had already gone through Hunza Pass and had taken nearly all of the available native carriers. Permission is to be sought to use another pass through the Himalayas to Turkestan and the Pamir region...
...misleading reports in various newspapers yesterday contributed to this resentment. To follow the establishment of a great and very materialistic Business School with a huge and very practical School or Dirt Farming is a development they do not relish. It now appears that the suggestion is not as wild and impractical as it at first appeared...
...souls whose joie de vivre has been crushed by a ceaseless dreary round of charity balls and benefit teas. The aureole of romance which encircles this hunt--a recherché combination of fox hunting and "Hare and Hounds" beginning with a Hunt Breakfast at the Plaza, followed by a wild taxi chase through the city for clues which eventually lead to a hidden treasure )"finding's keepings"), and concluding in a Hunt Tea Dance--the aureole of romance, let it be repeated, will serve to illumine for minutes, nay for hours, afterward the omnipresent gloom of boredom which shadows...
...WILD DUCK - Ibsen made to look alive by sheer force of acting...