Word: drunkards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Drunkard, after long and inexplicable delays, is finally opening up this week at the Washington St. Opera House in Somerville. This is supposed to be the longest running show in America, and it's an invective about Demon Rum. Sounds like a nineteenth century "Reefer Madness." This is opening up Thursday night. Call 628-1266 for more information...
...Drunkard is supposed to be the longest running show in the history of the universe, beating out the Aurora Borealis by three and a half days. Astronomers may quibble with this fact, but the play, written in 1843, is opening up Thursday night at Somerville's Washington St. Opera House in any event. It's all about a man who lives somewhere to the north of Cambridge going into Boston and getting drunk, thus causing all sorts of problems for himself. There's a moral here somewhere, but it's probably gotten lost over the past 131 years. P.T. Barnum...
...this neighborhood, Gene and I came upon two young men fighting, or rather, one drunk attacking and another man struggling to fend him off without hurting him. A young woman was pleading with the drunkard to stop, but we were too far away to hear her actual words. She dashed in front of him. When the other man tried to kick the drunkard away, he accidentally knocked the girl to the ground...
...Informer. Victor McLaglen gives his Oscar-winning performance as the bumbling drunkard who has no place in the revolutionary schemes of the IRA. The strong visual compositions of John Ford are very much in evidence, and the sole disconcerting fact is that McLaglen reminds one of a combination of John Dean and Bart Porter, torn between their own stupidity and a misplaced sense of duty. Channel...
...Montgomery trendies out and muddles his abstractions, he has at least had the sense to depict the concrete human characteristics of the trio's surrounding presences--the grasping mediocre manservant. Ganya Ivoglin, his drunkard father and consumptive brother, the soft headed but sweethearted Madame Yepanchin with her sheltered virgin of a daughter; and Lebedev, a disgustingly, dissipated opportunist and hanger-on who has left his family behind him and come to St. Petersburg to find a master who will leash him. Let these come into the action and the audience senses a full, real context (though their actions and dialogue...