Word: epic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...oldsters ... in the cast, it would be the surest safeguard . . . against the critics. . . ." So says seasoned Marie Dressier. Director Wesley Ruggles (Cimarron) shares her respect for young actors. In Are These Our Children? which he wrote himself, he takes a cast mostly under 18, guides them through a depressing epic of juvenile delinquency which ends at the electric chair. His story corresponds roughly to the one which any newsreader detects between the lines of items concerning adolescent bandits, schoolboy murderers and other such. It tells about a boy (Eric Linden) who, failing to win a high-school prize for oratory...
...Crimson has certainly had no particular success, since Both will be restricted in his activities by a strained ligament and the stellar Blue center, Malin, is undoubtedly out of the game. On the other hand, Harvard, in spite of its last two hard contests, will be entering the epic clash with full strength, Dean being the only doubtful...
...yard run-back of the opening kick-off in the Holy Cross game literally gave the contest to the Big Green, while if he hadn't been caught from behind in the Columbia clash after a 68-yard sprint, that fracas might have ended in a tie. In the epic battle with Yale last Saturday this great ground-gainer piled up more yards than any other back in the game, not excluding Albie Booth, and pulled off some remarkably spectacular runs. Dartmouth's other great threat, Bill Morton, put on last year one of the most beautiful exhibitions of kicking...
...epic was written in the turgid waters of the Charles yesterday when a fighting Dunster crew went down to defeat under the stern of a Winthrop shell. Although a classic in itself, this event is important as the first in a long and happy series. Another cog has been ground in the ratchet of tradition...
...from both a psychological and physical viewpoint, should key them up to a far better pitch than their traditional rivals. The Yale Daily News seems to thoroughly share in this sentiment, as they are credited with this bold-hearted assertion, in reference to the unemployment collection slated for the epic Harvard-Yale clash: "The spectators will give freely only if their favorite team is winning, so if the managers are wise the Crimson side of the Stadium will be canvassed first before it gets too discouraged." --BY TIME...