Word: play
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...armies in their last-ditch fight against the Reds in the south of Russia in 1918-20, emerged from his Paris retirement last week to excoriate any "socalled White Russian" who would join Hitler to fight the Soviet Union. In a phrase reminiscent of Frenchman Jacques Deval's play Tovarich-which Adolf Hitler has seen three times-old General Denikin cried to an audience of fellow-exiles: "White or Red, our fatherland remains our fatherland. Whoever may aid Russia's enemies cannot call himself a patriot, no matter what ideological excuse he may use for taking money...
Rookie Frankie Brimsek, a native American (that in itself a rarity among predominantly Canadian players), had chalked up one of the most remarkable records in modern hockey. Within three weeks he had shattered mighty Tiny Thompson's record of 224 minutes, 47 seconds of play without a score being charged against his team. In ten games with the Bruins, nine of which they won, Rookie Brimsek had permitted only seven goals. But the latest addition to the Bruins was not inflated over his feat of two sets of triple shutouts. To reporters, taciturn Frankie Brimsek announced that the triples...
...Unpredictable, inexhaustible, octogenarian George Bernard Shaw last week disclosed that he is at work on a historical play laid in the reign of Charles II. Said Shaw to sex-sniffing reporters: "Oh, forget about Nell Gwyn; this is going to be about really interesting people . . . Sir Isaac Newton, for instance...
...season is vivacious 20-year-old Mary Martin of Leave It to Me. A newcomer to Broadway, she has gladdened Bald Head Row and rear balcony alike with her spirited singing of My Heart Belongs to Daddy: While tearing off a game of golf I may make a play for the caddy; But when I do, I don't follow through 'Cause my heart belongs to daddy. One night last week as she sang it, light-hearted as ever, the rest of the cast, sentimental as actor folk are, could not bear to meet her eye. For they...
Outward Bound (by Sutton Vane; produced by The Playhouse Co.). Seeing an attractive play again after 15 years is usually as disillusioning as re-encountering a once-attractive woman. But Outward Bound comes off better than "well-preserved," still retains its humor, imaginativeness, suspense and its more elusive quality of "theatre." Profound, or even provocative, it never was; the play is effective just because it treats the idea of death simply, concretely, familiarly. The appeal of Playwright Sutton Vane's imagination is not its incandescence or daring, but its deep kinship with Everyman...