Word: faste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Boston, so far undefeated this year, almost threw Harkness with a fireman's lift. Though both matmen used every kind of twist and turn, neither was able to pinion the other. The fighting was fast for any kind of match, and for an exhibition it was unsurpassed...
...forth in a stage venture, this time a contemporary satire by Philip Barry. And from the wholehearted response to "The Philadelphia Story" last night it is apparent that the star of the Bryn Mawr graduate has risen anew in the popular firmament. Miss Hepburn has chosen this time a fast, clever vehicle, enabling her to display the richness of her virtuosity as a comedienne...
...freshness and vitality of her performance are qualified only by the occasional drawbacks of the play itself. Certain lines--especially in the first act--come too fast for even the most hardened crack cracker; the story, containing one case of mixed identity, virulent satirizing of Henry Luce and the "Fortune" outfit, and a complex love relation, verges on the obscure. But individual scenes, such as Miss Hepburn's "interview" of "Destiny's" reporters in the first act and the love scene between Van Heflen and Miss Hepburn in the second, show real brilliance, and give to the play an underlying...
...Five Kings is a chaotic Shakespearean vaudeville in which the sense of history is conveyed chiefly by having all the characters grow older, and some of them die. The production lacks all style and almost all significance. What might have been a tour de force jumps so fast from one thing to another as to be a non sequitur de force. Often good theatre, it is never good drama, just as Welles's portrayal of the fat knight is often good fun but seldom good Falstaff. Played on a twelve-part revolving stage that keeps circling like a Lazy...
...Buckley paced the scoring efforts of the Crimson Freshmen. Buckley, who had been elected captain shortly before the game, filled the air with his long shots from all over the floor. Rice, high Crimson scorer, kept the Yardlings in the lead with his aggressive play and his many fast breaks...