Word: playfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Declaring that the Princeton game today will be decided by "inspirational play," Yovicsin promised the enthusiastic crowd that the Crimson would achieve "the victory you deserve because you've been such loyal rooters...
...third of the play's four acts they come together in front of the ramshackle farmhouse where the girl lives, and he confesses, in a long, anguished monologue, the most tormenting of his guilty secrets. This scene and the one that follows and resolves it are the best parts of the evening; once Jim Tyrone begins to open his heart, A Moon for the Misbegotten becomes and stays interesting. But somehow it never becomes as powerful or haunting as might be expected from the combination of this author and these themes. The old O'Neill faults, on the other hand...
...comic scenes center around Josie-the-slattern's rascally old Irish father, who is played by Arthur Malet with a nicely integrated and polished collection of mannerisms indicating rascality and eld. It would be a brilliant performance, except that it is a bit too carefully styled and a bit too lovable to be thoroughly at home in O'Neill's harshly realistic play. Moreover--unaccountably, in view of his obvious skills--Mr. Malet is not very funny...
While Mon Petit may play with reality, the audience remains aware that this is fiction, even surrealistic fiction. To heighten this effect, Kautner limits his palette so that orange (the oranges), black (the sophisticates), white (our boy and girl), and grey (the edifices of Paris) predominate. And, of course, the characters seem too attractive to be realistic. Horst Bucholz especially stands out as a sort of Jimmy Dean for the quality trade...
Yale has lost only once, a 3-0 decision to Springfield, the probable New England champs. The Bulldogs have been sensational in Ivy play, outscoring their opponents, 15 to 1. Their defense, led by halfback George Seeley and goalie Andy Bloch, is nearly impenetrable. Against a Cornell team that the Crimson edged, 2 to 1, the Elis notched an 8-1 triumph, giving some indication of their explosive offense...