Word: playe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...window display appears to hit a new peak each Christmas. Nowadays the best windows are as craftily arranged and lighted, and almost as convincing, as scenes from a play. "It could be great art," one of the best of its practitioners insisted last week. "It ain't, but it could be. I look forward to the day when we'll have nothing but display on the main floor. Then we can really create atmosphere, using everything-fire, water, why, we could even blow up a hurricane...
...year-old Playwrights' Company out of a slump that had threatened to end a unique Broadway team. Last season, for the first time since it was formed by Maxwell Anderson, S. N. Behrman, Sidney Howard, Elmer Rice and Robert E. Sherwood, the partners could not dig up a play among them; Broadway wondered loudly whether the old hands had lost their grip. Now the Playwrights plan to follow Anne with four more in the current season...
...recent years, the Playwrights have slowed down. Howard died before one of his plays could be produced. Behrman quit because he shrank from the managerial decisions imposed by the system. Composer Kurt Weill joined, but that still left the company with only three dramatists- and a lagging output. This season, however, the Playwrights have a real prospect of getting new blood: Garson Kanin (whose new play is on their current schedule), Ruth Gordon and Thornton Wilder...
...power play," which has transformed big-time hockey into high-pressure shinny, is producing 24% more goals than in the age of the great Howie Morenz. In New Haven last week, a protest was heard. A test game, permitting only three offense players in the attacking zone at any time, was played before 25 New England prep-school coaches. Said Richard Cuyler, co-coach of South Kent School's hockey team and a leading opponent of power-play hockey: "The power play results in more rough play in the end zone, often resulting in organized shinny, indiscriminate shooting, banging...
...1930s, equipment improved and the game graduated from smalltime gyms to big-city arenas. The "10-second rule" was introduced, requiring the team putting the ball in play to be across the center line in that time; the old center jump was eliminated. Out of the Midwest and the far West came firehouse basketball and the fast break. The old distinction between forwards and guards was now all but forgotten. As coach of the New York (pro) Knickerbockers, Lapchick now spends most of his time setting up defenses to hold the opposition under 75 points, figuring that...