Word: plays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...league victory and the Tigers will be anything but a soft touch tonight. Cappy Cappon has an aroused Orange and Black squad which cannot be kept at the very threshold of the comeback trail indefinitely. Despite the addition of Bob James to the starting lineup and improved all-round play, the Crimson must rate as slight underdogs to the Bengals...
...Tigers have made some changes in their lineup since they descended upon the Indoor Athletic Building (and really left when there were still two minutes remaining to play in the game). Johnny Meyerholz and Eddie Green will be at the forwards, Captain Scof Scofield at center, and Dan Carmichael and Eddie Hobler at the guards. Green and Carmichael are comparative newcomers in starting roles, but each has had abundant experience...
Although it calls for a woman of charm and wit, Miss Lawrence's role at the same time portrays selfishness, conceit, superficiality, self-consciousness and scarcely an ounce of sincerity. That she can play such a part and still hold her audience entranced is a tribute to the debonair Lawrence of England. Her precise timing, her walk, her little habit of patting her bosom and her clothes (by Hattic Carnegie) all contribute to the ensemble, but Miss Lawrence achieves most of her effect with her voice. Like none which she has used in the past, it ranges from the affected...
...does not appear. Not satirizing but seriously analyzing the shortcomings of the Oxford Group, author-director Rachel Crothers has let her characters speak flippantly of God without allowing her play to be in any way flippant. The play rails at houseparties, confessions, dowagers, the substitution of "spiritual" for "physical" love and the superficiality which often characterizes the Group. But at its objective attempts to smooth out human relations Miss Crothers does not laugh she merely disagrees...
...unite around a happy hearth. For the plausibility of this ending Miss Coleman, replacing, Nancy Kelly as the innocent daughter, is largely responsible, Mr. McGrath brings humor and sincerity to a small but important role. The rest of the cast is subordinated to Miss Lawrence for most of the play, but in the more serious third act Natalie Schafer and Charlotte Marley turn in sound performances. Fast-moving throughout, the play is at once hilarious and thought-provoking. It is 'hard' to ask for more...