Word: plays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Early standees may arrive for an especially popular play on the midnight before -full 20 hours in advance. When flesh and blood can stand no longer, the queue folk rent camp stools from hucksters for a few pence each. Then, lest they topple in exhaustion from the stools, they fling several more coppers to street artists and organ grinders who essay to keep the queue awake. Finally standees and sittees dose themselves with coffee sold by vendors who cry loudly the first Hottentot syllable, "hot . . . hot . . . HOT!" Last week Edward of Wales commented sympathetically upon London theatre queues in addressing...
Lolling each night before palpitant play-goers at Vienna, a black buck Negro toys with white, honey-haired girls, boasting that no woman of their race has yet resisted him. The scene is the climax of Johnnie, a jazz opera now the hit-show of Vienna. One night last week, race-conscious Austrian students rebuked the decadence of an audience which was applauding Johnnie by tossing from the balcony numerous assorted smoke, stench and sneeze bombs...
...changes have been made in the line-up of the team that defeated Holy Cross on Wednesday. H. T. Wenner '30 and A. W. Slocum '28 will play the forward positions, M. M. Green '28 will jump center, while Captain J. N. Barbee '28 and R. L. Hatch '28 will take care of the guard positions...
...waistcoat in the yard. He is a loveable, tragic figure, walking hither and yon, like the inevitable canine, on the heels of a great idea. That his idea may fail to take tangible form bears little weight; for in the unending pursuit, he has produced some very pleasant by-play...
Coach H. L. Cowles concedes his team only an outside chance to take the national team crown. A new ruling of the National Squash Racquets Association provides that at least one member of each team must play in the singles, and that this man may not represent his team in the team matches. This rule, depriving the University aggregation of its captain, may seriously damage its chances in the team tournament...