Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fifty percent of the clientele to whom Buster Keaton is something new. The Laffmovie probably attracts a higher percentage of children than any other Boston theater, and since that means a higher percentage of truants, it presents certain problems. The manager must know when the school holidays fall, or he will be getting into trouble with the police; but on Saturday afternoons no holds are barred, and Harvard undergraduates rub elbows with students of Somerville High and with the families who have formed the Laffmovie habit. At these times the house is packed, and old-timers are reminded...
Undefeated teams around Cambridge are about as rare as pennants in Philadelphia. Whenever a local outfit seems headed for a perfect season, some uncongenial opponent manages to throw the switch that spoils the record. Last fall's soccer aggregation, roaring through the first half of its season unbeaten, fell to Dartmouth at the halfway mark and never quite shook it off; and once again the Big Green seems to be waiting to knock off a Crimson group, this time the swimmers, who have bowled over M.I.T., Brown, Army, and Navy with apparent ease...
...went on to say what a terrific guy her husband was and how the 16- and 17-year-old infants on his team had mauled everybody they played last fall. At any rate, whoever gets the job--Valpey, Glassford, Jordan, or even Skip Stahley--he will have to get it pretty soon. Time is running...
Other minor matters were bandied about by the local politics: Why registration? They'll investigate. Why not improvements in the course catalogue? They'll probe. What to do about parking? They tabled the issue of parking until the fall unless sufficient undergraduate pressure stirs them to action before then. Alarm was expressed about Red Book financial conditions...
...would be pleasant to be able to say that Boris Goldovsky had closed the fall-winter season of his New England Opera Theater with a production as thoroughly satisfactory and promising as his first two. Mr. Goldovsky chose for the last work in his "Mozart Festival" an opera whose problems of staging, casting, and setting have always been imposing; and yesterday's performance indicated, unfortunately, that his group is not yet up to the task...