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Word: play (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Woody Herman's Band of Raymor fame will play at the Kirkland House dance next Friday night. The dance, which is the Deacons' way of preparing for the Yale meets on Saturday, will be formal and will last from nine to two with a buffet supper at midnight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirkland Plans Dance | 3/1/1939 | See Source »

Brushing aside the plagiary charge, authors Morgan Preston '39, David Lannon '39, and Alan Lerner '40 stated that they had written the play last Spring, borrowing the title from a Pudding show produced during the Franco-Prussian War. I. A. L. Diamond, sophomore author of the Columbia book, admits lifting his title from Pegler...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Columbia Accuses Pudding of Plagiarism as Titles Conflict | 2/28/1939 | See Source »

...credit to Mr. Welles, the Theatre Guild, and the Mercury Theatre, "Five Kings" cannot hope to compete with Maurice Evans' production of Henry IV--inaudible diction alone will ensure that -- and even the best Shakespeare has a limited audience appeal. When it is so difficult to produce one play, it is hard to understand why Mr. Welles has undertaken to produce two, and possibly three. Some of these days we will have to run over to the Colonial after breakfast and find out just how many plays are being offered, but in this case "Five Kings" are five too many...

Author: By V. F. Jr., | Title: The Playgoer | 2/28/1939 | See Source »

Miss Lawrence wants to visit Harvard before she leaves, and the Hasty Pudding Club has invited her to tea, but her time is filled with regular performances of "Susan and God" and rehearsals of a new play, "Skylark," to open March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Star of "Susan and God" Remembers Past Relations with Harvard Student | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...favorite role she revealed, is always the one she is playing at the moment. She has played the role of Susan in more than 580 performances, and has become so used to the part and has grown to like living with Susan so much that the rehearsals of the now play seemed very strange...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Star of "Susan and God" Remembers Past Relations with Harvard Student | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

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