Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although the Harvard Varsity eleven faces its toughest schedule in years minus the services of Charlie Spreyer, first-string fullback who has been called by Uncle Sam, and Bud Waldstein and Stan Durwood, two capable reserves who went on pro after finals last year, the Crimson outlook is growing brighter day by day as Coach Dick Harlow whips a number of rapidly-improving Sophomores into shape as reserves, and a sheaf of men from the injured list return to active duty today...
...slapstick in about equal portions, and there's a good chance that you'll be sitting near one of the cast if you're in the orchestra. The plot involves a couple of violent deaths which only add to the fun, and the leading character is Tom Dewey minus mustache. All of it is, therefore, rather confusing and not at all significant drama. From the opening corpse through three acts' worth of looking for the killer, the cliches trip over each other in their eagerness to get across. The wise-cracking reporters, the unconnected telephone, the slow-witted darkie, they...
...Minus Times Minus Equals Plus. If ever a man had reason to be bewitched, bothered and bewildered by recent history's queer swerves, it was His Majesty Reza Shah Pahlavi. For 20 long years he had played with London, played with Moscow and never lost a trick. Actually he never played both ends against the middle, for he never needed to. During most of the 20 years, London and Moscow felt towards each other much as Georgia's Governor Eugene Talmadge feels towards Negro Ph.D.s and vice versa. But now, somehow, crazily, incredibly, these two irreconcilables stood shoulder...
Bucks County Playhouse really waited for was to hear mute Harpo speak and play himself (Banjo). In the third act they were rewarded by the bandersnatch entrance of Harpo, minus his red fright-wig but plus a violent shirt with enormous purple and red flowers. Wildly ogling the indulgent audience, he plucked all the Harpo strings, blew bubble gum, enjoyed himself no end. Last time he had spoken out loud on the stage was 25 years ago in a Texas tank town. The long silence had not improved his manners. Said he, stealing a line from the play...
Plugging coffee will enable Mrs. Roosevelt to do her bit both for charity and the Good-Neighbor policy. As usual, she will distribute her estimated $2,000-a-week radio earnings (minus taxes) to such favorite enterprises as the American Friends Service Committee. Her programs will also be short-waved to Latin America...