Word: plays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year-old professional said that the most important thing to learn to do is to keep the ball in play. "The most difficult shot is the back hand," he added, "but the foreband drive, when mastered, will probably win more matches than anything else...
...Radcliffe goes native" is the keynote of the current Idler production. "Noah." Unlike the original production, however, there will be no love interest among the furred tribe as only one of each species will appear in the play...
...Rome last week international tennis, for four decades Sport's roving good-will ambassador, received a kick in its white flannel pants. Drawing up manifestoes for the coming season, the Italian Tennis Federation announced that: 1) Italian tennis players henceforth will be required to play international matches in uniform; 2) handshaking between opponents will be forbidden "to avoid the weed of intimacy which for too long has infested lawn tennis courts...
...Darling Daughter (Warner Bros.) is an adaptation of Mark Reed's mildly sophisticated, mildly amusing play about a humorless young couple who enjoy an earnest week-end together before getting married. Three weeks ago the New York State Board of Censors banned the movie. Last week, the Board of Regents rescinded the ban and Warner Bros., eager to capitalize on the publicity, hurried it simultaneously into Manhattan's Strand and Globe Theatres. Critics and audiences found it mildly sophisticated, mildly amusing...
Patrolman Appelby threw a rope to Burr from Weeks Bridge to attempt a "rescue," but Burr wanted to play...