Word: play
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same time Bingham said that Harvard would play no more inter sectional football games. "We are not going to compete with the West and the South," he said. "We are going to play in our own class. We are going to stick to the Ivy League." He added, however, that no games now contracted for will be cancelled...
Madness is the subject of this play, and it receives an excellent treatment in the hands of the Brattle Company and its guest star Ian Keith, who gives one of the greatest performances I have ever seen. "Henry IV" was one of the plays which won its author, Pirandello, the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1934. It is a provocative and ingenious investigation of sanity and reality, which uses the play-within-a-play idea. But with a difference...
...madness, a modern man believes himself to be Henry IV, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. He had been masquerading as such at a party on the night that he fell from his horse. As a result of this accident, he became mad and continued to play the part in a setting created by his friends--exactly like that of the historical Henry IV. After twelve years he regained objectivity but preferred to continue playing the emperor. If I understood correctly, the degree of his lucidity varies from time to time: Pirandello wanted to show that we are different people...
...Playing at guard against Tufts will probably be Jim Downey and Bill Hickey-two more of last year's speedy freshmen-Aaron Cohodes, Dick Covey, and Cliff Crosby. Although Cohodes has seen little action in past seasons, he and the other four may well play in Saturday's game...
...varsity A squash team bowed yesterday afternoon to the Union Boat Club Red squad, 3 to 2, in Metropolitan Squash League play...