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...slow first act and two seemingly aimless ones following it expelled two people sitting behind me. These people missed a treat in the last two acts of Ibsen's great play. It is then that the characters, ideas, and comedy of "The Wild Duck" bloom, in some of the most masterful writing of modern theater. The acting parallels the movement of the play, reaching a brilliant climax in the last two acts...
...dialogue, which loses its kick when the mustachioed leer is missing. The special effects like Harpo's trick coat and the much heralded chase are up to standard but there is nothing side-splitting like the stateroom scene in "A Night at the Opera" or the mirror scene from "Duck Soup." "Love Happy," while not nearly up to Marxian standards is still pretty good comedy...
...share of ECA dollars until the Redcoats got out of Northern Ireland. Last week Congressmen with Irish names, and others who were only looking for a chance to embarrass the Administration, suddenly and whimsically leaped aboard Fogarty's dream boat. After being assured that they could duck out again whenever they wanted, they voted...
...novel, Across the River and into the Trees, Ernest Hemingway got off a newsy note to Manhattan Columnist Leonard Lyons: "Mary broke her [left] leg in two places, skiing like a damned champion at Cortina [in Italy]. Last year it was the right leg ... We had good duck and goose shooting, and Venice and Paris were both as fine as ever. Am a boy with five home towns now-Paris, Venice, Ketchum [Idaho], Key West and Havana...
...DUCK-BILLED PLATITUDE...