Word: playing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hollis--"Porgy". A folk play with dramatic power and beauty...
...Gators were victorious in eight of their nine encounters, losing only to Tennessee in the final game of the season on a rain-soaked and slippery field which offered but poor footing to the fast and tricky attack which characterized the Florida play all season. And even then they were defeated by a single point, the final count being...
...Nyhoff '31 and H. W. Sibley '31 were outstanding in the Junior play, and Frank Watt '32 and T. E. Covel '32 did yeoman work for the Sophomores...
Possibly William Faversham was satisfied with "Her Friend the King", in which he is now playing at the Apollo theater, for it does give him an opportunity to perform three acts in the debonair fashion that becomes him so well. But the play can hardly be said to meet any other standards of taste. The manuscript might well have been a composite of the theater's most familiar scenes, for there is scarcely a situation that has not become painfully hackneyed through years of repetition; and their quality is not improved by the latest transmission. With such material the struggles...
...game, as that the Eastern attitude may soon go West. The trail has already been blazed, and while older institutions of higher learning continue to rigidly interpret the amateur code for the hopeful edification of their erring brothers, an amazingly human populace insists on taking its education and its play in equal proportions. Yale News