Word: playing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Only about six more real practice sessions remain for Captain Barrett and his men before the Big Blue team invades Cambridge. There remains much to be done, particularly in rounding out the offense, but the Michigan game produced a higher caliber of play by a Harvard team than has any other major game during Horween's four years at Cambridge Harvard was beaten at Ann Arbor, it is true, but it came back from the first trip to "Big Ten" territory with a heads-up attitude, and if left behind a profound respect for the work that Horween has accomplished...
...tentative date for the production of the Classical Club's Latin play, Plautus' "Menaechmi", rehearsals for which started last week, has been set as Friday, February 14, 1930. So far as can be learned, this will be the first production of the Latin comedy in America. A special musical score, based on ancient musical measures, is being composed for the play, by R. S. Shuman...
...University soccer team and the Naval Academy battled to a one to one tie Saturday afternoon at Annapolis. The Navy took the offensive during the greater part of the game, but the Crimson's excellent passing and general team play were the saving factor for Harvard. The only goal of the visitors was scored by H. H. Broadbent '32 in the first half...
...Gave hospital aid to a circus camel (playing in a Passion Play) which had pneumonia...
...London opening last fortnight the play had fair success. Actress Foster is not the only person Critic Hannen Swaffer has belittled. He once called Playwright George Bernard Shaw "a tiresome old driveller." Playwright Shaw did not smack Critic Swaffer's face. Instead, at the annual luncheon of the Critics' Circle last month in London, when Toastmaster St. John Ervine divided dramatic critics into three kinds?"critics, reporters and Hannen Swaffer"?Shaw said all dramatic critics were very bad, compared Swaffer to the late great Playwright-Critic William Archer,* said that Archer was worse...