Word: rains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This is no time to try to think of original criticism of "Rain", now belatedly current at the New Park Theatre. The play has been praised by metropolitan critics as long and as fervidly as "Abie's Irish Rose" has been reviled, and with equally good reason. An appreciation is more in order than a review. This department is doing its full duty to its readers in saying merely that the passing years have treated the play and the players kindly. There is none of the mechanical action and listless mouthing of lines that one might expect after four years...
...Walford, a member of the carpenter staff of the University in whose charge the winding of the clocks has rested for the last ten years, told a CRIMSON reporter that when the wind blows from the north or northeast all the rain and snow with it is driven into the orifice in the side of the clock's face in which the axle of the hands turns. When sleet comes with the wind it is forced around the axle and when it congeals the hands must stop turning...
Baptists aren't the only bigoted beggars in the whole of Christendom. In Weaver's "Black Valley," that interesting novel of missionary life in Japan, the author draws a character not too unlike the maligned minister in "Rain" But he doesn't call him a Baptist. He might even be a Methodist or a--So you won't be able to laugh at his Baptistisms. Yet you might read the book anyway. It does not approach Forster's "Passage to India," but it is a very satisfying treatment of an unknown, if narrow, field...
...Park--"Rain", with Jeanne Eagles on February...
...letter game, with two or three more receiving letters by award. This is a just state of affairs and shows all the more the injustice of the soccer ruling permitting only two substitutes. I have known seniors at Harvard, out for practice every day in the fall, in rain and in snow, without whom there would not have been enough men to form a second team for the varsity to scrimmage against, unrewarded in the only way Harvard can reward men for service in its various athletic activities, with a memento to treasure a lifetime...