Word: playing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...uncut Hamlet, Margaret Webster's fine direction gives life and movement to a congested, multiform play. If the production has faults, they spring from excess of theatricality, not from taking Shakespeare too reverently. As Falstaff, Actor Evans has gusto and wit, though not quite enough of the knight's profound worldliness. And-perhaps surprisingly-he is better as the fat roisterer than he was as the melancholy Dane...
Idiot's Delight (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is Producer Hunt Stromberg's version of the play in which Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne delighted New York City theatre audiences three years ago. On the stage, Idiot's Delight presented the fragmentary romance between an itinerant U. S. hoofer and the fake-Russian mistress of a munitions maker, in an Italian border hotel on the eve of a European war. All this added up to an amusing and superficially penetrating indictment of totalitarian politics. Whenever Hollywood touches material of this sort, it stirs up a tremendous agitation about whether...
Like Occidental music, Chinese falls into two camps: classical and popular. Most of what U. S. listeners hear (in Chinatown theatres and restaurants) belongs to the popular type. But last week Manhattanites got a chance to hear samples of China's classical music played by the highest-browed of China's highbrow musicians. The concert was sandwiched in as part of a show given by the Chinese Cultural Theatre Group, a troupe that had reached Manhattan by way of several west coast cities. Their play-acting was not up to Chinatown's level. But the music, delicately...
...Canada as junior clerks (i.e., office boys with standing). Both stayed with the bank when it was merged with the Royal Bank of Canada; both became inspectors. In 1925, when J. P. Morgan needed two good commercial bankers, both were hired. Both went to live in New Jersey, to play golf together on week ends. In 1931 both were upped to the newly created title of manager. Both gained prestige when Morgan gave up underwriting and concentrated on commercial banking in 1934. And so when deaths and resignations reduced the firm from 20 to twelve partners in six years...
Gray's goal was one for the books. With less than a minute of the last canto to go, he shot the puck into St. Nicks territory from beyond center ice, on what was presumably intended as a last minute power play. As it happened, however, Stockhausen failed to see the rubber until it was too late, and it slipped between his legs for the second Crimson tally...