Word: played
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with their instruments. An audience of kids, who had trekked in from all over corn-and cotton-raising Scotland County, was there already, waiting for one of the 117 concerts that Conductor Benjamin Swalin's peripatetic North Carolina Symphony Orchestra (and its 23-man task force) will play at more than 60 highway & byway spots in the state this spring...
Varsity golfers decided to play Columbia instead of Princeton yesterday, and lost 4 to 3. The match was played at New Haven as the first of Harvard's three-game Eastern Intercollegiate series...
...Crimson will play Yale this morning and Princeton this afternoon, and will have to win both matches to meet the top Southern teams at Atlantic City next week. Yesterday Yale beat the Tigers, also by a 4 to 3 score. Both teams will be pretty stiff competition...
...production, given entirely in Latin, has a spontaneity seldom seen even in plays whose medium is English--a tribute to Messrs. Maurice Snowden and Robert Brooks for their direction of a theater-piece that offers such obstacles to "sophisticated" tastes. Language difficulties are reduced to a minimum, and the obvious enthusiasm of the cast--which sometimes, but infrequently, amounts to overplaying--carries the play along when exact meaning may be in doubt. A sense of timing, so important to the success of any farce, seems to be well nigh perfect, so that situations are always clear though subtleties be lost...
There was a good-sized audience last night. Unfortunately, it appeared to be composed largely of patrons of the classics. You don't have to be a Latin genius to understand and enjoy the play, and a lot of people are going to be missing out on a good time if they don't see it before it closes tonight