Word: brittania
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Denis O'Dea, is reduced to pillaging and playing cards, nervously squatting on the floor of an attic, because he will not participate in a futile rebellion. Mareen Delany and May Craig are splendid as a pair of garrulous, short-tempered kind-hearted fishwives, the latter singing "Rule Brittania" throughout the uprising. All these people and several others comprise an intensely interesting gallery of figures, but the play suffers, and compares unfavorably with "June and the Paycock," through having no character of great tragic proportions...
Perhaps a modern team would like to face the 1881 Harvard schedule, a part of which read: Saturday! October 12. Brittania at Montreal; Monday October 21, Michigan at Boston; Wednesday, November 2, Pennsylvania at New York; Saturday, November 5, Columbia at Cambridge...