Word: plays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deal was riding on this attempt at repertory. Its failure indicates that Americans (there is no reason to suppose that Bostonians are unique) do not want good theatre, and will not take it when it is offered. It will be hard now to read the success of a good play as indicating anything except that an audience has been stampeded by hit psychology, coaxed by affection for a favorite star, dragged by dumb loyalty to a particular critic, or tempted by the possibility of sexual excitement...
This Saturday Harvard will play a return match with the West Indies Club on Franklin Field in Dorchester. The weekend of May 2 and 3 the Harvard Club will travel to New York State to play Cornell at Ithaca on Saturday and a Rochester team on Sunday. Saturday, May 9, the Crimson meets Yale at New Haven...
After Oxford came several years of writing and directing, including "six months as director of a weekly repertory in a town in Staffordshire in the Midlands. I did twenty-four plays in twenty-four weeks, including O'Neill and Shakespeare." (Imagine a repertory company doing a play a week, including O'Neill and Shakespeare, in, say, a middle-sized city in Pennsylvania. Even a city the size of Boston seems hardly willing to bestir itself to support a repertory theatre.) He That Plays the King, his book on the drama, came out in 1951; it includes material written at Oxford...
...York star Noel Feddis soon intercepted a Hauge-to-Holmes pass and raced forty yards for their final tally. Besides these two lapses the Crimson carried the play, despite opposing scrum, and the disadvantages of playing a man down for ten minutes...
...walk to George Harrington and a double by John Davis got the Crimson a quick 1-0 lead in the first inning. A wicked liner to second by Davis in the third inning was nearly turned into a triple play after walks to Harrington and Al Martin. singles by Johnson and Harrington and a walk to Davis loaded the bases in the fifth, but the Crimson scored only once when Harrington was thrown out at the plate trying to follow Johnson on Charlie Ravenel's single to right...