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Critics who reviewed the play next morning unanimously agreed that the third set was perhaps the most daring ever composed by the lean actor-dramatist. Four times Lacoste stood within a point of victory; four times, with strokes that bit like a fencer's riposte or an epigram by William Wycherly, Tilden beat him back. He took the set 8-6; ran out the match...
...Favorite dramatist, Shakespeare; favorite stage actress, Jane Cowl; favorite stage actor, John Barrymore; favorite movie actress, Norma Shearer; favorite movie actor, Adolphe Menjon; favorite amusement, bridge; favorite automobile, Packard; favorite style of beauty, brunette; favorite girl's name, Mary; favorite man's name, Robert; favorite color of eyes, blue; favorite cigarette, Lucky Strike; favorite cigar, Corona; favorite tobacco, Blue Boar; favorite study, history; favorite college department, English; hardest course, History 201; easiest course, Evolution; most valuable course, Biology; favorite college outside of Princeton, Yale; favorite woman's college, Smith...
Died. Lucien Guitry, 65, famed French actor, father of Dramatist Sacha Guitry; in Paris. He often acted with Sarah Bernhardt. His fear of mal de mer prevented him from carrying out frequent plans for coming...
Lady of the Rose. When Martin Flavin wrote Children of the Moon, two seasons ago, he received mention as another dramatist of promising consequence. From time to time rumors of further works from his pen were in the air, but Lady of the Rose is the first to actually materialize. It is a rude disappointment. Lady of the Rose suffers from bad writing and is in an agony of inefficient acting...
...difficulty, as Mr. Shaw will undoubtedly soon realize, is with the Englishman's innate fear of giving offense. How can the would-be contributor bear to see one great dramatist memorialized in a National Theatre while the other goes unrewarded? Rename it the Shakespeare and Shaw National Memorial Theatre, and contributions will pour in by thousands...