Word: playing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Though Wings Over Europe, by virtue of its lack of sex-appeal and the Wells-Vernian circumstances of its conversational plot, is a freak play, it is also of the kind called "profound." This means that its excitements are cerebral and that spectators, leaving the theatre in their cabs, will be aroused to the point of shouting each other down with explanations of its meanings and with speculations as to what each one would have done, had he or she been the luckless Lightfoot...
Sign of the Leopard. "I cannot disturb Mr. Wallace-he has just started a new play." With these words, the secretary of Edgar Wallace endeavored to discourage a telephonic caller who immediately replied, "Very well-I will hold the wire until he finishes it." Such is the reputation for alacrity in composition of the playwright-novelist-journalist who keeps London and England in a perpetual state of horror at his inventions. In the U. S., his horrid fancies occasion less alarm. In this, what with switching backward and forward, after the fashion cf the cinema, in time sequence, and supplying...
...Japanese are ardent sports; they play hard and they idolize those who play any game better than they. Thus Gehrig, Tilden, Tunney, Ruth are far greater names to them than that of Tsunenohana, their champion wrestler. Japanese baseball addicts possess a faculty which U.S. fans in some measure lack: they like to play as well as watch. Japanese players, unlike U.S. ones who speak largely of golf, poker and guzzling, like to hear about their U.S. counterparts. The little pitchers have big ears and the catchers wait anxiously every day to hear what is doing with big league catchers...
Although 20,000 persons were usually on hand to watch him play, and though the curious cries of the Japanese enthusiasts, who greeted him as Babe Ruth's cousin, must have helped convince him that he had not passed his prime, Ty Cobb, as soon as he returned to the U. S., reiterated his intention of retiring from professional baseball. He said that he was not considering becoming the manager of any big league team; he will go for a hunting trip soon and after that he will spend a year in touring Europe...
...Bruce Caldwell, famed Yale footballer. was last year given a contract to play professional football for the New York Giants, after being declared ineligible at Yale. His pay was twice as large as that of any other member of the team. Last week his contract expired and, because he had not played well for the Giants, it was not renewed...