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Word: deckchair (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clutterbuck suffers acutely at times from deckchair gabble and shipboard sameness. Yet it is very often - particularly during an act spent ashore - both effervescent and funny. It boasts such small ingenuities as having Clutterbuck never utter a word; such larger achievements as making Mrs. Clutterbuck a fine blend of sappiness and wisdom. The show is the better, too, for good ensemble acting and-in Norris Houghton-a director who knows that with any soufflé it is timing that counts most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Dec. 12, 1949 | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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