Word: plays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ringside. The writing of "racket" plays has become a racket in itself. This play, the latest in the Fight Game series, improves on many of its predecessors by furnishing a complete set of characters of its own instead of "ad-libbing" from the newspapers. The square jawed hero, for example, is a lightweight instead of the usual heavyweight. He is not a facsimile of Benny Leonard, Sammy Mandell or any other celebrity. He is simply Bobby Murray, a type instead of a borrowed headline. Actor Richard Taber makes the part into a distinct, albeit dull personality. Actor John Meehan does...
Miscellaneously, the year seems promising enough, as do all new seasons when viewed from the solstice. Beatrice Lillie will play in This Year of Grace and the Gershwins will supply songs in a new show for her old playmate Gertrude Lawrence. A play from Floyd Dell's The Unmarried Father will be called The Little Accident. The Private Life of Helen of Troy will at last be made public on the stage. Sam H. Harris, no relative of Jed, will exhibit the Marx Brothers, Harpo (mum), Groucho (chattering), Chico (wop) and Zeppo in Animal Crackers. Arthur Hammerstein plans...
...than many an opening night will be the closing of The Ladder which has been holding forth so long and so unprofitably on the probabilities of reincarnation. Its now famed producer, Edgar B. Davis, oil-tycoon and philanthropist, last week issued a statement saying that he would withdraw the play since it did not seem to be a success...
John Van Ryn spent the spring at Princeton because it was his senior year; George M. Lott went abroad on the Davis Cup squad, played tennis. Yet Van Ryn extended Lott to five sets last week before Lott turned Van Ryn into a pillar of fault, ran out the match, won his first leg on the Newport (R. I.) Casino singles cup. The same afternoon Lott, paired with John (California) Doeg, bested Van Ryn and Wilmer (Texas) Allison in the doubles final. Lott may play freshman tennis next spring at Brown University, which last week admitted him to its rolls...
...Power. Teeth are slightly loose in the jaws. They swivel and play a trifle. They need exercise. Industrious chewing is the best exercise. Most people, who pay attention to their health, know this. Few, however, know that they must put at least 1,700 pounds of pressure into each day's biting, chewing. Dr. Thomas Hartzell of Minneapolis says so. Thorough mastication requires 5,000 pounds of pressure. A person who eats properly uses enough strength daily to lift a 7-passenger motor...