Word: plays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...winter of 1920 Wolfe wrote his first play at Harvard, a one-act drama called The Mountains, which was produced for a special workshop audience the following fall. The Mountains was a raw, unpolished production, little resembling the glib drawing-room fare produced by other members of the workshop. It was a story of the Carolina mountain people, dirty and sordid, yet filled with the mystical and romantic eulogization of the "land" which became a trademark of Wolfe's later work. Criticism of the play was highly unfavorable, and Wolfe became despondent: "I will never forget the almost inconceivable anguish...
Wolfe later lengthened The Mountains into a three-act play. He revised by completely re-writing; in a letter to Baker he mentions that he wrote the three-act version of The Mountains without once looking at the original script...
Charlie Ravenel will start at quarter-back, according to Yovicsin. "He has won the position by his play against Lehigh and Cornell. The other boys know they'll have to win it back." HOUSE SPORTS FOOTBALL Dunster 14 Eliot 0 Adams 0 Kirkland...
...About the first three times they took the ball up the field they scored," said Dana Getchel, freshman soccer coach, last night. "Although the Tufts field is narrower than the one we are accustomed to, the team played very well at the beginning. They tended to play in spurts, however, and I want to work on this," added Getchel...
...members of the starting team are injured and may not play Saturday. Right end Stu Hershon had been completely out of action until last night, when he was able to do some jogging at practice. Yovicsin called his injury the most serious suffered by anyone on the team...