Word: playe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rodle, Drvaric to Play...
...play has its faults (it lags and sags and sprawls a bit), and its limitations-it is less a play than a show, with a show's quick turnover of impact and emotion. But it is a show well worth seeing...
...Heiress*-a period play of mid-19th Century Manhattan-centers in Catherine Sloper (strikingly played by Britain's Wendy Hiller), an awkward, passive, plain-looking girl with great expectations. She falls passionately in love with an attractive fortune hunter (well played by Peter Cookson); but her coldhearted, sardonic father (well played by Basil Rathbone), thoroughly aware of the suitor's motives and utterly unconcerned with his daughter's feelings, forbids the match on pain of disinheritance...
History by Twilight. Sunday's crowd of 74,065 in Yankee Stadium was the biggest in history, and had spent a record $327,659 to get in. What they saw set some kind of a record, too; for bad pitching, and for edgy, spectacular play. It was the longest nine-inning game (3 hrs. 19 min.) in Series history; the Yankees used more players (21) and both sides more pitchers (ten) than ever before. This time it was the proud Yankees, hustled to distraction by Brooklyn's irreverent Bums, who looked sloppy. The Dodgers won, and evened...
Shylock Marshall. In the next issue of the Gazette, it was Secretary of State George Marshall's turn. This time the Soviet puffer was Nikolai Pogodin, winner of 1939's Stalin prize for his play The Chimes of the Kremlin. Ambassador Smith did not waste his breath protesting. Excerpts...