Word: booths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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JOHN van Druten's new play, "After All", will be published on December 4, the day after it opens at the Booth Theater in New York City. It is described as a play of family life. Mr. van Druten is also the author of "Young Woodley", which had a successful run in New York in 1925, and of "A Woman on Her Way", a novel published last year by Mr. Knopf...
...fourth time that Albert James ("Mighty Atom") Booth had played in a game against Harvard. As captain of Yale's freshmen he had seen his team beaten 7 to 6. In 1929 and 1930 he had been on losing Yale varsities. Last week, in the soth Harvard-Yale game...
...Booth tried to dropkick on the Harvard 14-yd. line early in the second quarter. A dejected little fellow, his mouth wide open, his eyes squinting, he watched his kick veer outside the east goalpost...
...years ago than they are now- long, risky forwards which need an expert passer at one end, an expert receiver at the other. Harvard's best running backs are Crickard and Schereschewsky; Nazro and Hageman are brilliant ends. But the essence of Harvard football this year, as Booth has been the essence of Yale football since his sophomore year, is William Barry Wood Jr., called "Barry" by sportswriters and "Bill" by friends...
...Booth made his football reputation in the Yale-Army game of 1929. Wood made his in the Harvard-Army game a week earlier. The passes he threw at the end of that game made the score Harvard 19, Army 20. His drop kick tied the score. Michigan's Fielding Yost, onetime coach of Benny Friedman, called Wood that year the greatest passer he had ever seen. Since then Wood has often 'justified the compliment. A mediocre runner, at times an uninspired field-general, Harvard's captain has taken longer than it took Booth to achieve the status...