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There are a number of men in the playwriting business who are professionals in the fullest sense of the word. Like a carpenter who sets out to build a house, these writers, men like F. Hugh Herbert, John Van Druten, and Benn Levy, know that is required to make a play a commercial success and occasionally proceed to write such works. John Cecil Holm is such a workman and the "Gramercy Ghost" is his latest project. Complete with an excellent cast and slick direction this play proves a delightful evening at the theatre...
Springtime for Henry (by Benn W. Levy; produced by Harald Bromley & George Brandt in association with Richard Doscher) has been darn near a lifetime for Edward Everett Horton. Having played it just about everywhere else in the U.S. for the past 18 years, he began playing it last week on Broadway. To Broadway, which found five years long enough for Oklahoma!, those 18 years seemed either a miracle or a misprint. Not that the idea of the play-which inverts a copybook moral-isn't amusing enough. Henry Dewlip begins as a rakish, well-adjusted bachelor, is misled into...
Exeter will take on the freshman baseball team today in a game at the Academy. The Red and Gray will field a team which Coach Gordon Benn calls "our best in recent years...
...Benn expects the Harrison will be ready to start against the freshmen. In case he is still incapacitated, Benn will open with Dick Strain, another right-hander who has recieved credit for all Exeter's wins...
Shortstop John Parker is Benn's best all-around player. He is a consistently good hitter; afield he covers a lot of ground and has a strong, accurate throwing arm. Parker handles himself well pivoting on double plays, according to Benn...