Word: plays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lloyd Crow Stark published a tempting want ad. If any place needed a Dewey, thundered the Governor, it was that haven of corruption, Kansas City, stamping ground, of his old enemy, Boss Tom Pendergast. Governor Stark ordered his Attorney General Roy McKittrick to go into action. Last week the play was taken out of McKittrick's reluctant hands by an oldtimer at reform...
...story of Gunga Din, written by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur and made into a screen play by Joel Sayre and Fred Guiol, appears to be a sort of Anglo-Indian Three Musketeers. What plot there is concerns the efforts of two sergeants to persuade the third to re-enlist when his period of service expires. This entails much hand-to-hand fighting against a band of Thugs, a few barrack-room practical jokes and frequent athletic tricks of the sort popularized by Master Fairbanks' father. Funny, spectacular, and exciting, Gunga Din reaches its climax when the liveliest sergeant...
...Green, the company's chief comic, of prancing, capering, grimacing too much as Ko-Ko in The Mikado-"putting the horseplay before the D'Oyly Carte," as Critic John Anderson referred to it. To this the Olympian D'Oyly Carters made no answer, merely continued to play, night after night, to standees...
...Freshmen six, idle for two weeks, take the ice tomorrow afternoon when they play Milton Academy at Milton...
...their sharpness and grinning evilly at the vision of the cleanly vivisected jugular vein of an enemy defenseman. Then the whistle blows again, and the "game" goes on. Nothing ever stops these 20th century executioners except the necessity of removing a corpse which has fallen so as to inconvenience play. If a man is obliterated out in front of the goalie's cage, the game is halted until the gurgling victim is transported to a far corner of the rink...