Word: played
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Davison's two long runs trapped the Harvard guards and left the offensive guards free to go ahead of the play and take out the secondary. Davison had enough speed to take it from there...
Chandler, the visitor's quarterback, mixed up the inside and outside plays cleverly, and this also gave the Crimson a bad time. The only way to really stop the wide plays was to break into the backfield before the hand off. But, by crashing to stop the play before it started, the line was left open for a delayed buck or a short pass...
...Neill in the field of modern, naturalistic drama; and since the former spells death at the box-office and the latter is a commercial risk, Strindberg, by association, has been deprived of his place on the professional stage, (except in rare revivals of "Miss Julie," a one-act play...
However, two brave individuals, Richard W. Krakeur and Robert L. Joseph, have produced one of Stringberg's finest plays, "The Father," and have given it such an intelligent production that it seems as if the jinx may at last be broken. Using Mr. Joseph's English version of the play, and with a cast headed by Raymond Massey and Mady Christians, the Messrs. Krakeur and Joseph have provided the theater with one of its most interesting and exciting entertainments in a long while...
...story of "The Father" is quite simple. A husband and wife are fighting a war of brains for the control of their daughter. The battle has been going on for some time and in the 24-hour course of the play the immediate cause of the trouble is what kind of an education the girl shall have. In order to strengthen her side, the mother hints that her husband is not the girl's father. Suspicion foments in his mind, he suffers an attack of insanity, and the wife then wins control over "her" child...