Word: playe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have seen Robinson play, and I think that he is terrific (I saw him steal home against Joe Beggs). But there is another rookie whose record seems even more impressive. He is Larry Jansen, pitching star of the New York Giants...
Checkmate. In Los Angeles, Henry Gordon's wife complained to police that he had locked her indoors, made her play chess with him for two days running, and she never won once; when she finally tried a little cheating, he chased her out into the street and thrashed...
Helen Hayes had violent stomach trouble just before Happy Birthday's curtain time in Manhattan; play & star got together again after a one-day intermission...
...state-paid musicians of "lack of discipline and inadequate rehearsing." But nothing had gone awry with the orchestra, only with the soloists. Dutch journalist Henri van Eysden had an explanation. The astonishing amnesia of two soloists in one evening could be explained only by the kind of foul play that Novelist Du Maurier put Svengali up to in Trilby. It was all the fault of a Dutch building contractor who practiced hypnosis and mental telepathy as a hobby, he said. The contractor had laid a bet that he could wreck a concert by tele-hypnosis...
Exaggeration and ancient ham devices make up the first act of the play, and most of the second, with a little interpolated social conscience thrown in. After that comes a slow build-up to the curtain line, which almost makes up for the rest...