Word: plays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strange shapes-with irregular snouts that might be used as handles in forward passing; with fat sides to make punts fly short and crookedly. The committee announced last week, through Chairman Edward Kimball Hall, that a new apparatus will be used in future to measure pigskins put in play. The correct football will have "a circumference of its short axis from 22 to 22½ inches (a half inch less than last year), length of long axis from 11 to 11½ inches, entire surface to be convex, and inflated not more than 15 pounds, nor less than 13 pounds...
Last week Composer Deems Taylor confirmed the rumor (TIME, Feb. 25) that his new, Metropolitan-commissioned opera would be based on Street Scene, a play by Elmer Rice, now successful on Broadway. Street Scene is about tenement life...
...that it would not fit on the hatrack back home. It is an exceedingly interesting study of the blind arrogance of one of the War's own children in conflict with the equally blind forgetfulness of the world to which he returned. It just misses being a fine play. Its chances of success are greatly enhanced by the presence of Spencer Tracy as the hero, and Frank McHugh, whose characterization of a top-sergeant is one of the crack performances of the season. She Got What She Wanted. Evidently on the theory that if the triangle play has been...
...Montague is better known in this country for his mercurial newspaper idyll, A Hind Let Loose; for his satire on Englishmen at war, Right Off the Map and for the War-novel Rough Justice. In spite of his admixture of Irish blood, his philosophy is essentially, exceedingly English. To play the game, to accept one's fate and carry on-these are the "fiery particles" that compose the unvarying pattern of his thought. The present volume of posthumously published short stories falls short of grade-A Montague. Nevertheless it holds to the pattern. The title story concerns a middle...
...qualifications for the post was her handwriting-the cult of calligraphy amounting almost to a religion at court. Love affairs often began by some chance view of a lady's writing. On scented rice-paper Shonagon traced her delicate characters, decorating her "poems" with puns and symbols, word play and subtle metaphors. Her diary is less fancy and more amusing than her verse. She divided experience into "Disagreeable Things," "Very Tiresome Things," "Deceptive Things." Under "Annoying Things" she lists: "When one sends a poem or a kayeshi [return poem] to someone, and after it has gone, thinks of some...