Word: plays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last year's opener, will be on the mound for the Senators as they try to begin this season in better style than they ended the last, when they dropped their final thirteen contests. Jack Harshman will be hurling for Baltimore, but the Orioles may have to play without Billy Klaus, a one-time Red Sox hopeful, who injured himself in his bathroom Monday night...
President Eisenhower, who had played no golf in two weeks, arrived in Augusta Tuesday, and reportedly is planning to play and stay for about two weeks. The President went directly from his plane to the Augusta National Golf Club fairways, where the Masters Tournament was completed two days earlier and where a special cottage is kept for his use. According to reliable sources, he is hitting the ball well...
Throughout the play, his ideological and practical adversary is the police lieutenant, a good fellow who has swallowed the party line of building heaven on earth, and who regurgitates said line a little too often. As the lieutenant, Dean Gitter is properly obnoxious, and convinces one that he sincerely believes in the socialist doctrines he preaches. In his final conversation with the priest (adequately though not excitingly portrayed by Michael Mabry), he successfully conveys the impression that some human element is lacking in Utopian thought, while the priest presents the case for suffering...
...Power and the Glory, then, while not a great play, is a good play; the same may be said of the performance. Repertory Boston has undertaken a difficult assignment, what with a cast of twenty-eight plus extras-and six different sets. That the group gives a sound performance of a worthwhile play is heartening and encouraging...
...with three runs in the second frame and went on from there to pick up four more runs on four hits and eight Quantico errors. In these games the hits were well distributed among the players, and the pitching and fielding were both excellent for early season play...