Word: plays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lincoln Tunnel and onto the New Jersey Turnpike late one night last week rumbled two chartered buses. Aboard were 84 students from Trenton State College (for teachers) and two faculty members, returning to Trenton from Manhattan after seeing Archibald MacLeish's prizewinning play J.B. It was past midnight as the darkened buses cut off the turnpike at New Brunswick and headed south for Trenton. In the second bus, some of the 40 coeds aboard dozed; others chattered about the play, and a few were singing songs...
...superb technique: the lines he throws away, the jokes he holds his nose at, the changes of pace, the changes of face, the alarming sounds in his throat. If Flanders' way is to be sinuous, mocking and charming, Swann's way is to play everything straight, then suddenly seem straight out of Edward Lear. He is as repressed and colorless as a don, then as vaultingly mad as Don Quixote. Their combined way has given Broadway its gayest evening since La Plume de Ma Tante...
...West Berlin's Renaissance Theater without success: the four-week limited engagement of Jerome Kilty's Dear Liar had been sold out overnight. Based on the series of "wicked, wicked letters" that George Bernard Shaw exchanged over the years with Actress Stella (Mrs. Patrick) Campbell, the play crackled with the thrust and parry of Shavian wit neatly done in German. But for once G.B.S. himself was being upstaged by an even more powerful drawing card: famed Viennese Actress Elisabeth Bergner, 59, emerging from semiretirement to score the triumph of her career...
...completed one of the great pitching performances in World Series history. Sherry saved the second game for the Dodgers, 4-3, by relieving Johnny Podres in the seventh, allowing only one run. He saved the third, 3-1, by getting Outfielder Al Smith to bounce into a double play with the bases loaded in the eighth, fanning three men in the ninth. In the fourth game, he set down the White Sox without a hit in the eighth and ninth, was credited with the 5-4 win. By the sixth game Lawrence Sherry was so eager to pitch that...
However, as Brookins said last week, "being a sophomore doesn't mean you have to make a mistake." If the Lion rookies play a steady game it's not impossible that 15,000 fans will watch another stunning upset. It's just very unlikely