Word: play
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wandered around idly, fell into chow lines for his meals, slept in one barracks after another. "One day I saw some men throwing a baseball around," he said, "so I joined them because I always liked to play ball. After a while, I was on the baseball team...
Captain Edward Molyneux, Paris fashion expert, announced without any reticence that he would use his visit to buy clothes fashioned in this country. He planned to pick up a few functional resort and play fashions and take them back to his Paris salon to adapt them for the continental trade...
George Bernard Shaw's Buoyant Billions, his first new play in almost a decade, closed in London after a five-week run-the shortest a new Shaw play has ever had in the West End. "Well," he shrugged, "I shall lose no sleep over it." To an inquiring newsman who ventured to hope that 93-year-old Shaw was well, G.B.S. snapped: "At my age, young man, you are either well or dead...
They are first shown as a Boston Brahmin couple giving a family party on their golden wedding day. Though pretty messy for the family, things are golden for the Lunts. Then the play wanders sentimentally back across the years, offering an assortment of period costumes, family tragedies, marital crises and extramarital complications. Alfred, for whom every age proves a dangerous age, is incurably romantic and roving. Lynn, facing one ticklish domestic situation after another, knows the wise wife's formula for holding her husband: never a cross word and always a puzzle...
...timing, their teamwork, their contrapuntal growls and purrs, can put any scene across. And now & then, amid large blobs of stage custard, Playwright Behrman obliges with a nice witticism about husbands or Boston. But unhappily there are long stretches in I Know, My Love when there is neither any play on the stage nor any Lunts...