Word: playe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...theatrical season," wrote the New York Star's new drama critic last week, "got tangled in the starting gate Tuesday night, and all bets are temporarily off." That sounded more like a sport-writer than a play reviewer-and it was, sure enough. The reviewer, who got off to a somewhat better start than Sundown Beach (see THEATER), was John Lardner, 36, chipperest off the old block of all the late great Humorist Ringgold Wilmer Lardner's four sons...
...season opened on Broadway last week-with a play that closed after seven performances. Called Sundown Beach, it was a sad little thing in both subject matter and treatment-a bungled tale of flyers who had cracked up mentally in the war and were trying to get out of a convalescent hospital back into life. The new season's second offering, Morey Amsterdam's Hilarities, was far more gaily conceived but not much more happily executed. It proved to be a generally cheesy vaudeville show redeemed here & there by a sort of primitive showmanship...
...filled the bases with Giants-on a walk, his own error, and another walk. Between fast balls, he could still taste that hot dog. Manager Burt Shotton eyed the Dodger bullpen. Then, on a change-of-pace pitch, Willard Marshall grounded to Second Baseman Jackie Robinson for a double play...
...third, Jackie muffed an easy grounder. That was the last Giant to get to first base; Pitcher Barney started the double play that wiped him out. From then on, it was three Giants up and three down, as Barney's fast ball and tantalizing curve both clicked...
...York City's Board of Education issued a special pamphlet. A parent, the pamphlet said, should explain to a child that school would not be so bad. "Tell him ... he will draw, sing, play games . . . He will make many new friends . . . School will be an enjoyable . . . experience...