Word: playing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...playing is more intelligible than the play. Glenn Anders is splendidly desperate as the groping youth and Claudette Colbert not only plays the temptress with a true earthiness but is, in addition, one of the most beautiful pictures in this season's gallery. Dudley Digges gives to the atheist his usual excellent sense of values...
...Whispering Gallery. Those who frighten easily and enjoy it will probably find this mystery play more interesting than the recent average. It is frankly of the "I-wouldn't-spend-another-night-in- this-house-for-a-million-dollars" school, but it has its moments. The plot revolves around a house-party at a "haunted" country seat. Better acted, it would be more diverting, for it has comedy touches that might cover the holes in the construction if played with more subtlety. A. P. Kaye as a detective and Charles Warburton as the inevitable butler give thoroughgoing performances...
...important thing about Van Ryn is that he is well-to-do. He will scarcely be tempted to flirt with trouble by writing for the newspapers. His family likes having a first-rate sportsman in the family and he is afforded ample time and allowance to play and practice. He arrived at the Brooklyn tournament fresh from four months of serious tennis training in California. "The only thing," said an oldtime linesman watching the Van Ryn-Tilden match, "that can stop that lad is some blame girl. I hope he's a constitutional bachelor...
...Neill play, Dynamo, opened, last week, in Manhattan...
Close friends, ignorant but alert, observed that Composer Taylor was spending a good deal of time with his good friend Elmer Rice, wright of the Pulitzer prizeworthy play, Street Scene...