Word: playing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...agreeable. Before the football player has married the secretary and escaped the trap the boss was laying for him, you have stopped paying attention without having stopped enjoying it. Director Bretherton arranged the story very smoothly. Betty Compson, and an unknown, dark-haired young man named Grant Withers play opposite each other. Assorted sound-shots: a crowd at a football game, a college dance where everyone sings, a stock ticker. Thunder (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Lined and grey, smeared with oil, misty with sentiment under its visored cap, the face at the window of the enginecab is Lon Chaney...
...Dartmouth, pipe-smoking naval officers were sprawled on the Devon-green grass listening to the clear crack of willow bat on cricket ball, watching their more athletic colleagues play the youngsters of the Royal Naval College. The cadet eleven ginined happily in their spotless white flannels and played close. They had just caught a grizzled Lieutenant-Commander leg-before-wicket, and the present batsmen, for all their massive shin guards and bushy eyebrows, seemed easy. Suddenly at a whispered word from the sidelines the long-white-coated umpire stopped the game and announced...
...Play's the Thing that deceives the young composer. In love with...
...rowing season losers of only one race. Eliminating the Westminster Bank crew in the first heat, Columbia stroked to a one-length victory in the second over the Kingston Rowing Club boat, coached by R. C. Sheriff, young insurance-broker author of Journey's End, current War play. Columbia was eliminated in a windy third heat by the heavier crew of Trinity College, Cambridge...
...members of its several families one or two such conservers of morals this season also the city would have escaped the hideous spectacle of a disgustingly realistic presentation of debased womanhood. To come into contact with moral pitch visually or orally is defiling, and to sit through one suggestive play, except for the purpose of protesting to newspaper, police department, priest or minister in an effort to stir up indignation against it, is to consent to defilement. This is a matter in which whoever does not condemn, condones, and to condone immorality is a ghastly business for the citizens...