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...three most famed U. S. dentists one is a duck-hunter, two are golfers. "Doc" Oscar F. Willing lives in Portland, Ore., and was runner-up in the National Amateur golf championship at Pebble Beach (TIME, Sept. 16). Dr. Henrik Shipstead lives in Minnesota and in addition to being a duck-hunting dentist he is a U. S. Senator, a one-man Party (Farmer-Labor), a sick man (TIME, Sept. 16). The third. Dr. George T. Gregg of Pittsburgh, is the best U. S. golfer over the age of 55. This he proved last week by scoring...
When the country where the swans do live is finally reached then comes the catching and marking of the cygnets, no mean task as anyone can discover by rowing a boat around a pond in pursuit of a small duck. Royal swans are left unmarked. Dyers' swans have one nick cut in their bills, Vintners' swans two nicks. The task is made no easier by the fact that parent swans are extremely aggressive. They can bite and they can kick. They can buffet with their bony wings hard enough to break a man's arm. Yet they...
There can be no question as to the merit of Blanche Yurka's production of "The Wild Duck". From start to finish it is admirably set forth. Well cast, well staged, and with somewhat more of real life instilled into it through fine directing than is the lot of most Ibsen plays, it deserves the praise which all those who have seen it have showered upon...
...considerable question as to whether one likes the play or not. Such sombre stuff as this is does not appeal to many even when as perfectly presented as in the present case. A play in which misfortune strikes as severely and as often as in "The Wild Duck", is removed from that anaesthetic type of entertainment which so many seek when at the theatre...
...despondent Norseman. Other Ibsen dramas have always left the impression of extreme morbidity, with a moral to be learned, but shown in a most unconvincing tale. This tale stands cross examination better. All this is due, no doubt, to Miss Yurka's presentation. In less skilled hands. "The Wild Duck" could easily be produced as no more than another Ibsen...