Word: plays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Besides its thrills "The Skull" has very little indeed to offer. The authors are frank enough to make no pretense at plot, and the advertisements for the play stress the chills and laughs, not the tenseness of plot situation. If sudden shrieks, queer lights, clutching hands, ghost voices and such phenomena thrill you, there is little doubt that "The Skull" will prove very satisfactory fare. But if you demand more of a mystery play, if you ask a cleverly worked plot you will find the play lacking...
...scene is laid in a deserted church to which come a spiritualist, an international crook, two quarreling lovers and their mutual girl, and of course the man from Scotland Yard. For three acts lights go on and off, spotlights play, and one person after another falls into someone's arms or else is suddenly dragged offstage by a mysterious form. In the end somebody has to be found to be the villain or the play would have absolutely no raison d'etre, and the resourceful authors manage to pin someone down just in time to send the audience home contented...
...feel of the ball and to let them loosen up after the winter's lay-off. The linemen were divided up into several groups under W. A. Cleary '15, C. J. Hubbard '24, F. A. Pickard '29 and John Donovan. These worked on the fundamentals of line play, charging, coming out of the line and falling on the ball. Captain J. E. Barrett '30, J. N. Trainer '31 and J. Potter were the only 'H' linemen who were present yesterday. Some of the members of the forward wall are expected out today while the interference of another sport will keep...
After some of the preliminary work was over the men were divided up into teams to play touch football. The entire practice yesterday was rather informal but with the coming of Coach Horween today, it is expected that a little stiffer program will be on schedule...
...entitled "The Woman of Andros," my first novel--in the sense that the others were collections of novelettes. The new book is laid in the islands of the Aegean about 400 B. C. and, is based on the retrospective action of a comedy of Terence. Terence's play in turn was based on a lost original of Menander, so that the pilfering is merely contagious...