Word: plays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play called The Ladder opened in Boston this week. It closed in Manhattan last sennight, having run 107 weeks, costing its "angel," Edgar B. Davis, an estimated 10% of his estimated $15,000,000 oil fortune. As everyone knows,* the play concerns the theosophical doctrine of reincarnation, to which Millionaire-Angel Davis sincerely, munificently subscribes. It meandered between four theatres, was rewritten many times,† had a period of "revision" during which the public was admitted free. Frequently Millionaire-Angel Davis gave bonuses of $20-gold pieces, paid well the cast, the author, J. Frank Davis (no blood relation...
...team and expect to see it win." Rockne moved about the country followed not by one Notre Dame team but by several; he arrived in Manhattan with three last week and sent one of them onto the field in the Yankee Stadium where 80,000 people were watching, to play against the Army. Notre Dame has lost two games this year; the Army has beaten Harvard and Yale but no team has beaten the Army...
...last quarter Rockne sent in a substitute lineman called Johnny O'Brien, who caught a pass on the goal line and made the score 12 to 6 in favor of Notre Dame. The teams lined up for the kickoff; there was a minute to play...
Tennis Tycoon William Tatem Tilden II must have been pleasantly surprised that despite the ban placed upon his tennis playing activities by the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association and extended last week by the International Lawn Tennis Federation, he could still play as an amateur in Russia or in Abyssinia. In the 35 principal tennis-playing countries of the world, including Cuba, Japan and Monaco, he will be considered a professional, because last summer he wrote reports of British tournaments for U. S. news-sheets...
Nobody would have believed that Davey "play-acted" a gallant knight outnumbered and surrounded by ruffians, but Sophie of the flaming red pigtails had caught him at it, and all her life she tried to reconcile that adventurous romantic spirit with the David, right hand man at the bank, David, beloved servant of the community, David, matter-of-course slave to his relatives. "Perhaps Davey will see his way clear to ..." send a bespectacled niece to finishing school, house a carping old-maid cousin, finance the whims and mistresses of a charming but debauched artist brother. Sophie married Davey...