Word: playing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...doesn't play golf, fish, or engage in other outdoor sports. He does play a fair game of bridge and better than average billiards, but he prefers a book, usually one with a historical turn. He is scholarly, keen, well-grounded...
...possible heir of a family lunatic strain. Partly to restore his happiness, partly out of love for her friend Dr. Darrell, Nina decides to have a child -by Dr. Darrell. This she does. The circumstance is only part of the vast neurotic complex of the play. Springing from characters whose histories are lengthily and deeply traced, it is an integral, convincing element in the drama...
Though written by Bide Dudley, chatty theatre editor of the New York Evening World, the play is redundant, filled with burdensome explanations of obvious situations. The predicament of Husband Carter is invested with little or no dramatic dignity. Tripping delicately between silliness and indelicacy, as if performing an egg dance, Richard Gordon gives a deft, sincere but inevitably useless performance as Husband Carter...
...Elisabeth Rethberg must grow flowers and swim twice a day. Her house and garden are in Winnetka, near the lake shore. Mme. Rethberg and Giovanni Martinelli will play again La Compana Sommersa (Respighi), which had its Metropolitan premiere last season...
Joseph E. Widener, Philadelphia sportsman-financier, ordered his two-acre Elmendorf Farm in Lexington, Ky., to be converted into a cemetery for the Widener thoroughbred horses. The central monument will be a large statue of Fair Play, sire of famed, fleet...