Word: erskin
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...Erskin Peters, chairman of the Afro-American
Junior Varsity: Fitz bow, Wilson 2, A. Whitman 3, Erskin 4, Lyman 5, Prince 6, Hinckley 7, Curwen strokes Palmer coxswain...
...Weak Link (by Allen Wood: produced by Chester Erskin in association with Philip Adler) is a farce-melodrama as lighthearted as Tiny Tim, and as lame. It concerns a young man who can spot the weak link in every crime. Offering his services to a "Bankers' Protective Association" to help prevent robberies, he finds himself among crooks, is forced to help commit them...
...Case History he wrote: "The stepmother goes off her chump." Of Come Across: "You see him in bed, which is no treat." Of The Devil Takes a Bride: "This is a sordid tale, my mates." Of the author of The Good: "An old Hudson (N. Y.) boy, Mr. Erskin . . . should hesitate about visiting back home." Of Thanks for Tomorrow: "Thanks for tomorrow, thanks for last week, thanks for next Friday-in fact, thanks for everything except last night...
...Luxe (by Louis Bromfield & John Gearon; Chester Erskin producer) is the kind of play which is so embarrassingly bad that it makes a playgoer's flesh crawl. Billed as "a play about the end of an epoch," it presents a frieze of specious, spotty and purportedly War-wrecked characters against a recent Armistice Day celebration in Paris. Rarely encountered outside the pages of bogus novels, these gloomy folk go about telling each other that they are "so tired," complaining of "the jitters," wishing they were dead. Once in a while one encourages another to "buck...