Word: greenness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...always a winter favorite is still proper for more formal town suits. Plain color knits and wool ties which go so well with the tweed and shetland suits will also be leading numbers. Blues and reds are taking the lead in the color line with an increasing interest in green. Wine is the most versatile color combining with almost any color suit...
Footballman Bobby Green will battle Al Corbett, who broke his hand last year, for the call in the 155-pound class. Captain Pete Olney, who lost only one bout last year, seems to have a competitor in the 165's in Eddie Davis, who is regaining his top form of two years...
Johnny Johnson should also appeal to playgoers interested in seeing some of the theatre's traditional dimensions torn out and enlarged. Playwright Green, who supplied the Group with its first play, The House of Connelly, and fugitive German composer Weill, who set The Beggars' Opera to new music with notable success three years ago, have fashioned a show which does not hesitate to exploit any form of theatrical procedure necessary to attain its end. The production begins conventionally enough in April 1917 with Johnny Johnson (Russell Collins), a tombstone carver with an odd way of thinking things...
...Liberty as he sails away to France. And from the revue stage and poetic drama, the play proceeds to a forceful sequence of impressionistic scenes. Johnny is found in a trench with his company and while they writhe their twisted limbs in troubled sleep, three great cannon bathed in green light rise over the parapet, ghoulishly croak a lament...
...finest and freshest show since Waiting for Lefty can be squarely split four ways: to Actor Collins for his good humor and dignity in a part which might easily have been confusingly eccentric; to Donald Oenslager for a series of arresting and imaginative sets; to Poet-Playwright Green for a profound and witty evangelical address to a world he at one point concedes to be "bass ackwards"; to Composer Weill for the weird, haunting little ballads and Europeanized fox trots which immensely help to articulate the play...