Word: plays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Princeton's 12-1 victory over Yale were twin highlights of the International Intercollegiate Ice Hockey League competition last week. McGill turned back one of the chief rivals for the crown it is defending, Queens University, 7 to 3, while Princeton scored its first triumph in Quadrangular League play and its second in greater-league competition by turning in the highest score made in the circuit this season...
...Hollywood, Producer David Oliver Selznick finally chose an actress to play Scarlett O'Hara in his forthcoming $2,000,000 production of Gone With the Wind. She was Vivien Leigh (pronounced Lee), 25, 103-lb., green-eyed, brown-haired, India-born daughter of an English stock broker, who got part of her training at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, made a hit on the London stage in The Mask of Virtue, played subsequent cinema roles in Fire Over England, Storm in a Teacup and A Yank at Oxford...
Also announced last week was the selection of Olivia de Havilland to play Melanie Hamilton and Leslie Howard as Ashley Wilkes. Previously announced was Clark Gable as Rhett Butler...
...world's No. 1 swing clarinetist, Benny Goodman, have long admired each other. When Hungarian-born Szigeti heard Goodman last year, he was so impressed that he wrote home to his friend, Composer Bela Bartók, asking him to compose something that he and Goodman could play together. Absent-minded Bartók didn't even bother to answer, but surprised Szigeti a few months later by sending him the manuscript of a brand-new Rhapsody for Clarinet and Violin...
Last week, at his annual Manhattan recital in Carnegie Hall, Fiddler Szigeti, with bespectacled Clarinetist Goodman as assisting artist, gave the new Rhapsody its first public airing. To play it Szigeti needed two different violins, Goodman two clarinets. To articulate Composer Bartók's complicated rhythms both Fiddler Szigeti and Swingster Goodman needed all the gumption they could muster. Because the rhythms were as Hungarian as goulash, perspiring Middle-Westerner Goodman never quite got into the groove. But Hungarian Szigeti went to town, rode his pony so excitedly he broke his E string...