Word: hammersmith
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Crummies Played. This is the first of six plays, each to run four weeks, which will be produced by the Garrick Players during the season. This particular piece, first presented at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, London, by Sir Nigel Playfair, concerns the presentation by Mr. Vincent Crummies' Players, of a play which portrayed the temptations and disaster of a young apprentice in the City. A nice, tweedy audience enjoyed the "satirical picture of the players, adapted from [an episode in] Charles Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby...
...work for J. A. Brown. His beautiful steering helped bring Cambridge, rowing smoothly, almost abreast. The Oxford-heavies tried a spurt. At the mile the bows were dead even. Without hitting it up, the smooth-stroking Cantabs drew ahead, pricking Oxford to a fresh spurt that shot her under Hammersmith Bridge, leading by a third of a length. Cambridge stuck to her steady stroke of 28 and all was even again at the two-mile mark...