Word: playe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...intramural world received no major shocks yesterday. Dunster beat Kirkland, 36 to 26, and Leverett beat previously undefeated Eliot, 34 to 29, in A League basketball; the Squash League resumed play after its vacation layoff; and the gallant hockey players prepared for their first dawn practice of the pre-exam season today...
...listeners on seat edge, but the other scenes slowed down to the speed of a grade-school tableau. Even the Herald Tribune's Thomson was disappointed: "There isn't enough music to hold the ear." Wrote his opposite number, Drama Critic Howard Barnes: "Music without a play...
Originally a play, and once before produced as a movie,* the new version of the story resembles a photographed stage show. Most of the action takes place on a single set, and the chief plot development takes place in the gunman's mind. Director Rudolph Maté (famed as a cameraman for such pictures as Carl Dreyer's Passion of Joan of Arc, René Glair's The Last Millionaire, Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent) keeps his camera on the move through the rooms of Cobb's cottage, and occasionally overcomes the static effect...
...James Warwick play opened on Broadway in 1935, ran for 119 performances, was later revived. The 1939 Columbia movie starred Chester Morris and Ralph Bellamy...
Starring roles were left to the visitors from Ithaca. Walt Ashbaugh led the cast he scored 16 points--but talent scouts highly praised the performances of Hillary Chollet and John Rose who helped to shock most of the audience in the final twenty minutes of the play...