Word: plays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Schaefer he could find no technical flaw. In the mental notebook there was one entry, however: "Lacks fighting spirit." Said Matsuyama, "Put Schaefer on a table a foot higher than the regulation table and I'll play him for $1,000 a side...
...Lawn Tennis Association, under the friendly presidency of Samuel H. Collom of Philadelphia, voted last week in Boston to remove the bar sinister of professionalism it voted six months ago when Tilden wrote in U. S. newspapers about the matches at Wimbledon, a -tour-nament in which he was playing. The bar was removed once before, to allow Tilden to play in the 1928 Davis Cup matches...
...Doctor's Secret (Paramount) is Sir James M. Barrie's one-act play Half an Hour done as a talking-picture which sticks to the original script in all respects except that Barrie's play ran the time specified by its title whereas The Doctor's Secret runs for 60 minutes. The story of the woman who lives through that half-hour-30 minutes from the time she leaves her husband to run away with another man, until, her sweetheart having been killed in a street accident when he went out to get a taxi...
Recently this quickening question occurred to paunchy but smart M. Edouard Herriot, onetime Prime Minister of France (June, 1924-April, 1925), and still, after many and many years, Mayor of the great industrial city of Lyons. Last week a brand new play by versatile Mayor Herriot was being rehearsed in Paris, and the prognostication was that it would be called: Napoleon, Empereur de I'Ameri...
...profession in common. But between them they allowed the coincidence to happen and, with the public still craving Ibscenities as an aftermath of last year's Ibscentennial, comparisons and contrasts were inevitable. For example: Eva Le Galliénne's figure is lissom; it permits her to play Peter Pan. It is im portant and eloquent in the theatre; she and her Civic Repertory Theatre en able the penurious to see good plays, no claptrap. Of more importance in the specific case of Hedda Gabler, her figure has no voluptuousness to soften the cruelty of the character...