Word: blanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This gloomy Victorian coastal mansion is run by a bland sharper who calls himself Dr. Chesterfield. An educational quack, Chesterfield prates of clean minds and bodies but has sold four of the school's five bathtubs. Boating and riding are advertised in the school brochure. But the boat is a suicidally leaky scow, and riding is discontinued when the resident donkey drops dead and is carved to vary the diet of congealed herring and paste porridge...
Captain Bob Bland and his reserve mate Phil Doherty performed brilliantly in front of the cage, allowing the freshmen to come up with four shut-outs and six one-goal games...
...play's three acts, however, when a young lady named Frances West makes her appearance. Having broken her leg during a performance of Six Characters, she is currently appearing in a wheelchair, but her scenes have been smoothly reblocked to accommodate her. Her Cecily has the proper air of bland but strong-minded ingenuousness; her accent is perfect, and if her voice did not sometimes become unnecessarily shrill, she would be thoroughly splendid...
With captain Bob Bland as first-string goalie and Phil Doherty in reserve, the Crimson has managed to come up with three shut-outs and five one-goal games. Bland will be a strong candidate for the varsity goalie spot which senior Harry Pratt will leave vacant next year...
...only other bright spot for the freshman sextet was the goaltending of captain Bob Bland, who made 40 saves...