Word: blakes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is Hart's first play since the warmed-over USO show, "Winged Victory," which he turned out during the war. It is not a success. Within a certain limited scope Hart is almost incapable of writing a bad line; the plot crisis of "Christopher Blake" is both believable and original--in the sense that it has not been rendered meaningless by countless Hollywood pot-boilings; and the acting is remarkably good throughout the large cast. All of which makes the failure of the play particularly unfortunate, for what ails it cannot be remedied in the traditional method...
...season in the theatre continues to develop as the most promising in the past eight or nine years, with almost every major American playwright being represented either with a new play or with a revival. The latest entrant into the field is Moss Hart, whose new play, "Christopher Blake," is now in the second of its three weeks at the Plymouth...
...American museums. Its greatest prize is its collection of Chinese art, the largest and finest in the Occident, and its Japanese, Persian, and Indian collections are scarcely less impressive. The museum is also distinguished for Egyptian, Classical, and Gothic works, and for European painting, particularly Italian primitives, Turner and Blake watercolors, and French impressionists...
...entire half-mile course Day and Simmons rowed almost stroke for stroke, and when they shot across the finish line, Coach Blake Dennison gave the nod to Day by less than 18 inches...
Most exciting race of the week's competition was in the 155 elimination. Coach Blake Dennison and Ed Callanan, clerk of the course, had predicted that this class would give a good show; but the race that developed exceeded even their predictions...