Word: plays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will remain unchanged, but sixth man Charlie Poletti will probably be forced out of action by an ear infection. Ed Wadsworth, Fred Vinton and John Davis will move up to the sixth, seventh and eighth positions, while Wally Stimson will fill the ninth spot if Poletti is unable to play. Vinton topped Davis by one point in a trial match yesterday to take over eighth position...
Under the field generalship of 5 ft. 9 in. guard Stan Needleman, the New Yorkers play a slow, deliberate game and wait for the good shot. Their conservative style of play, in sharp contrast to the play of last year's fire-house five, enabled the Lions to upset Cornell by four points in their only League encounter to date...
...Deathwatch last year, brilliant directing and acting diverted attention from the fact that the play itself was rather tawdry, small, and unimpressive. The Maids is not much more of a play, although it adds to a prison-like atmosphere a perennially interesting theatrical problem: the probing of possibilities of reality vs. illusion...
They take turns play-acting the part of their mistress, dressing in her clothes, speaking her lines, thinking of her lover; they resent the mistress--she has the capacity, shallow though it is, to be happy. One of the maids has tried to strangle her, and failed; the other tries to poison her, and fails. Both, spilling lines at each other terribly quickly, hurl insults and acid pessimism and gloom--"I am the dung heap on which I grow"--at one another until finally, one of them poisons herself, having commanded the other to offer her the cup. Why such...
...Crimson's sloppy play, a definite comedown from its pre-vacation standards, was almost matched by that of the Jumbos, but not closely enough to prevent the Yardlings' first loss of the year...