Word: plays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...young monarch's campaign against Darius and the Persians. To this the playwright had added a faintly Freudian obsession on Alexander's part for Helen of Troy, and fulfillment in the arms of Darius's young and neglected wife. The two leading roles are well enough played by Henry Hull and A. E. Anson, who might have made a very fine play of it hadthe author everdecided what he wanted...
...curious, thrilling story of Ahab, monomaniac. "A Khan of the plank and a king of the sea and a great Lord of Leviathans was Ahab." His was a terrific pride, and a consuming lust for vengeance on the White Whale. Moby Dick, who in malice, or in play, or accident, or instinctive self-defense had bitten off Ahab's leg and left him humiliated, crippled, to hobble on a stump of whale ivory. "Ever since that almost fatal encounter Ahab had cherished a wild vindictiveness against the whale, all the more fell for that in his frantic morbidness...
...short, principal street is a building labeled The Foreign Club, a title which means nothing. Inside are crowded tables, covered with green cloths. On these tables anxious tourists play roulette, blackjack, poker, craps...
...whenever the races are over, the play is wildest. Losers are trying desperately to win it all back. Winners are giving their luck a ride. There are only a few minutes left. For Tiajuana has practically no hotel accommodations and the U.S. border closes...
Robert Tyre Jones Jr., Atlanta, Ga., lawyer and family man, announced on his 27th birthday (March 17) that he would compete this year only in the U.S. amateur and open golf championships. In four out of the last five national amateur (match play) championships, Lawyer Jones has been victor. In five of the last six open (medal play) tournaments he has finished either first or second...