Word: playe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...treat the bosses with contemptuous laughter rather than bitter words-seemed early New Deal, not postwar. The Cradle's stagecraft, far from seeming daring, almost seemed dated. Only where Blitzstein's best talent-for mimicking fashionable chatter and parodying popular songs-came into play, was The Cradle really...
...prettily dressed and decorated. Sylvia Sidney, as the target for tonight, and John Hodiak, as the maniac, play it as if they 1) wished they were elsewhere, but 2) felt that they owed some kind of minimum to their employers and their conscience as craftsmen. Supporting players are given to lines like "Yon storm'll be upon us main soon."*Others merely curtsy, mew incoherently or tug their forelocks. For what it is worth-a middling curdler-the whole thing was much better done in 1937 by Basil Rathbone and Ann Harding...
...play about with the staple food of Scotland," cried Tory M.P. Lord William Montague-Douglas-Scott, "we believe it should be done at least by a separate order, and not classified in the same sentence as dehydrated potato flour." Some M.P.s laughed, and Lord William rounded on them. "I see nothing to laugh about," he cried. "It is an insult to one of the finest foods produced in the northern hemisphere...
Meanwhile, in Cambridge last night, Harvard Athletic Association Director William J. Bingham '16 would say only that the University of New Hampshire did not want to play a game as early as September 25, the proposed date. HAA official Carroll F. Getchell confirmed that Bingham had been negotiating with several schools for a ninth game and that New Hampshire was one of those under consideration...
...basketball teams will play their fourth and fifth games Thursday and Friday. Adams and Eliot, Lowell and Dunster, Leverett and Kirkland, and Winthrop and Dudley play Thursday, while Dunster and Adams, Eliot and Kirkland, Winthrop and Lowell, and Leverett and Dudley battle the following...