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...leaps off with a great rush, then loses momentum. Elsie Ferguson recovers in the courtesan role the warm, stirring undercurrent of her earlier acting. Throwing off the cataleptic spell of the cinema, she no longer seems to be waiting for a closeup. Except for a farewell scene, Sidney Blackmer has the cold, damp passion of a clay statue. He seems hardly to have the resolution to kill himself-as he threatens to do at regular intervals but never does. A moonflower is a bloom that lives only between dusk and dawn. In this play of love on a one-night...
Alexander Woollcott: "Elsie Ferguson never seemed lovelier . . . She never played better in her life Mr. Blackmer's solemn and largely inert performance gave only infrequent evidence that he had caught the sense of this fine comedy or, if he had, that he could express...
...summary: Harvard Williams Smith, r.f. l.g., Jayne Merriam, Stevens, l.f. r.g., Pease Rauh, c. c., Fisher Samborski, Maher, r.g. l.f., Cook, H. Brown, Bogart, Reed Rudofsky, l.g. r.f., A. Brown, Blackmer...
Score, Harvard 31, Williams 20, Goals, from the floor, Rauh 3, Smith 2, Merriam 2, Rudofsky, Samborski, Cook 3, Fisher 3, Pease, Goals from fouls, Smith 7, Rudofsky 3, Samborski 2, Merriam, Blackmer 4, Fisher, Reed. Referee, Mullen, Umpire, O'Leary. Time, 20 minute halves...
...game gave the spectators few thrills. The University quintet took a commanding early lead, and the visitors' scoring threats were in the main ineffectual. Captain Blackmer, the Williams leader, despite a recent appdendicitis operation, entered the lineup in a vain effort to stem the tide of defeat. He caged four free throws, but Rudofsky's guarding prevented him from scoring from the floor...