Word: players
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Toscanini's greeting to his Philharmonic-Symphony men. Day after he arrived he attended a concert, went backstage in intermission and stopped a tremendous ovation to ask "Where is my first horn, Jaenicke?" Shy, red-faced Bruno Jaenicke, whom Toscanini considers the world's greatest horn player, had stayed home that day with a stomach-ache...
George S. Ford '37 of Belmont, Massachusetts, has been elected captain of the Freshman hockey team. Ford, who plays center, prepared at Belmont High School and was captain of the Belmont hockey team and the outstanding player on the all star interscholastic hockey team of last year. He also made his numerals in Freshman football. Ford was considered by the newspaper sports writers last winter to be the best schoolboy stickman they had ever seen and it is rumored that he was offered a position by the Bruin's scouts...
Dillingham, a four goal man, will have for his mates Bill McGuckin, who played with him in their Freshman year, at his well filled position, No. 1; and Captain Tommy Davis, No. 2. Henry Gerry, who made his debut as a Varsity player in the close and hardfought 10 1-2--10 Candlewood opener, has yielded his position...
...While speaking of experience, I would like to say that I consider it the essential requirement of an actor. It is what every aspiring young player should try his utmost to get. Your dramatic schools are fine, and much that they teach is worthwhile, but without experience I would never consider hiring an actor to play in any production...
...everybody framed everybody else." Practically every character in his books, says Hammett, he has known in person. As readers of The Thin Man can see by looking at its jacket, Dashiell Hammett is himself tall, thin, handsome, mildly theatrical. Lover of parlor games, including drinking, expert ping-pong player, indefatigable host, he likes to keep long and late hours. No busman on a holiday, he reads few detective stories, much philosophy. An insomniac, it often takes a whole volume of Oswald Spengler's Decline of the West to put him to sleep. Unenergetic, he spent last summer at Sands...