Word: wilds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wild Duck. Ibsen† has become altogether too much a playwright of the printed page in our theatre. His works are rather reverenced than revived. Accordingly, it is immensely satisfying to see The Wild Duck live again in a conspicuously competent production of The Actors' Theatre. It provides an evening of exacting search through the mind and the emotions. This search is rewarded by one of the two or three most satisfying experiences in the season's schedule...
...Wild Duck is a symbol-a bird that, when wounded by the hunter, digs itself in the weeds and dies. The hunter of the play is a young idealist who comes to a middleclass, satisfied household and splinters their illusions. In the hope that he may lead them to a newer, finer life of honesty, he tells the husband that his wife has been another's mistress. The father shuns his child, fearing he may not really be her father. The child kills herself. The point of the play is put in the mouth of the old doctor...
...Wild Rose, Mandolin Club...
...Wales is reported to have said that he had no use for literature, or, at least never read to any great extent. Situated as he is he has always had the opportunity to live, rather than read of life. He has himself been the hero of many a wild adventure, of many a budding romance...
Well, boys will be boys. Wild asses will flap their ears. But now that they have brayed it would seem only fairness to print no more letters over my signature; or, at least, to permit me to compose my own. George T. Chase...