Word: playing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss Tucker, who is an ardent admire of England, is planning to return there shortly to take a principal part in a play by Jack Hurlburt and Paul Murray. Recently she has been making personal appearances at the showings of her talking picture, "Honky-Tonk...
Commenting on her approaching return to England, where she will join the case of a new play, she said...
Higher up there should be less question though some might consider Mercur overrated to a certain degree. He certainly handed Allison a most artistic beating in the Nationals, and compiled an impressive record for steady good play. Some would like to see Lott above Hunter, and a good many would like to see Doeg down the list some distance, but these two seem to have earned their ranking, even if there are few who can explain it reasonably...
Yesterday's half-hour tussle in the Stadium found Team A pitted against the first-year men. No account of scores was kept as the coaches halted play frequently to give individual instruction. The assignment work on the offensive is still dissatisfying, although some improvement over the showing against Bates has been made. Wood at the quarterback post in place of Putnam who was absent because of a late class, was given every opportunity to direct the team under various conditions. All plays received a good test against the Freshman line, which, incidentally, looked exceedingly good...
...that matter is the writing--done at a period when all the important characters had "exits" in the last act, with appropriate pauses for the audience to applaud in, when every situation was suggested, built up, and reached with a mechanical inevitability--the day of the "well-made play." Fortunately, that rigidity doesn't hold these days. In a period of nine-act dramas, of comedies taking place in a character's mind, of slangy racketeer melodrama the obvious mechanisms of Harry B. Smith's farce strike one as outdated, rusty, but serviceable...