Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...What it the solution? There is no perfect one. The older universities are hardest hit, for they confine themselves to their own graduates, then choice is limited perhaps among younger graduates who have this latent ability but have not found themselves in a business way; or among the still fewer older players who may have this ability and at the same time be so situated that they can devote the time. Under any circumstances the choice among their own graduates may be very limited and, except through a fortuitous condition, rather poor...
Stage Struck. Gloria Swanson has hit on a primitive comedy, reminiscent of her early Mack Sennett days, that makes magnificent entertainment. She is a waitress; she aspires to the stage; she finally gets a job on a Mississippi show boat; is exceptionally inept; retires happily to a lunch-wagon for life. The unusual atmosphere, the frequent use of slapstick unabashed, and the brilliant ability of the star combine comfortably for genuine amusement...
...spent a deal of extra worry, time, and pains, and can not find it in his heart to give it the praise such an expenditure of talent should warrant. Such is the case with the revival of the play in which Joseph Jefferson, contemporary of Booth, originally made the hit of his lifetime. The production of "Rip Van Winkle" at the New Repertory Theatre is done with considerable artistry, elaborate and delightful stage effects, excellent music, and harmony in every detail. Yet it drags. It drags interminably. On Monday evening the final curtain was rung down at exactly five minutes...
...scrimping grandmother, and only partly understands. But it has an entirely happy ending, for it sees through the eyes of the boy promise of all good things when the song-singing lover of life who is his grandfather comes to take him and his mother away. Mr. Poole has hit upon the one method of writing a completely realistic story with an unqualified happy ending...
...away from him when some snoop found out that he had played in a professional baseball game. He signed with the New York Giants, but soon showed that he was not good enough for big league baseball. Though speedy in the field and on the bases, he could not hit a curve ball, could not "judge" a long-hit fly ball. In the past few years he has made his money in the fall with professional football elevens, in the spring and summer with third-rate baseball clubs, and in the winter pursued whatever indoor diversions suited his fancy...