Word: playgoers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Playgoer is a regular feature of the Crimson, appearing twice a week with reviews of plays and motion pictures...
Dropping in for an act and a half of the Radcliffe Idler's "Ariadne," the Playgoer was favorably impressed by Misses Jean Goodale and Mary Capen; also with the fact that amateur performances rarely succeed in avoiding what for a better word one might call "foreshadowing." Either because of over-rehearsal or too great absorption with their own lines, certain members of the cast started gestures of reply ever before the question or cue had been spoken to them. Freshness and surprise in the repartee was as a consequence diminished...
Digressing, the Playgoer has learned that experiments among law school students have revealed that given two men of equal ability, the one studying five nights a week and "making a week-end of it" obtains higher grades than the man who surrenders all seven nights to study. Renders in the Senior and Junior classes are free to discover what implication they will in this finding...
...gave its first demonstration of the Western Electric Company's newest improvements in sound reproduction. Since then, there has been so much vague talk about "Wide Range" going around that you may have imagined the stage re-modelled for target-practice. To clear your mind of clay-pigeons, the Playgoer will have to resort to technicalities...
...choruses, attractive sets and costumes, and friendly faces. If the extensive roster of the Pudding includes any legalistic cranks, such members could probably spend the better part of next year suing musical producers for plagiarism, "You're in My Dreams," "Some Day Soon," "Hot Stuff," "Do It Now," ... the Playgoer predicts will be heard in part if not in toto at "the only country club in the United States without a name," but under different titles...