Word: robey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Finally, in goal Thomas Perry, Jr. '36, Craig Wallace '36, Robert M. Briggs '37, and the Sophomore Lorimer Robey will battle to fill England's shoes...
Chaliapin plays a lone hand for his support is woefully weak; but this only serves to further emphasize the haunting beauty of his performance. Particularly are the other players impeded by their accents, which immediately put them out of character. Sancho Panza, in the person of George Robey, talks Cockney. And Carrasco with his Oxford lisp seems more the bespectacled grind than the heroic flance. These too noticeable incongruities make it difficult to imagine oneself in the Spain of the seventeenth century...
Last week Don Quixote in English finally reached the U. S. Critics found it lively, visually beautiful, well acted by Chaliapin and a predominantly British cast including jovial old (65) George Robey, music-hall comedian. The pathos of the hero, however, choked off many a laugh at his comic doings...
...ninny of a fiance to despair by selling all his possessions to buy a library of chivalric romances. He sallies forth, enters a tavern where strolling players are performing. Vastly amused, they dub him knight. He swears fealty to his Dulcinea -a tavern wench. Arousing his trusty Sancho Panza (Robey) from bed, the old knight drags him off on a career of errantry. Dreamy, hollow-eyed, grandiloquent, Don Quixote perpetually fancies he is dealing with giants or magicians. His bewildered but eager squire does his best to help and coddle the old zany. After the Don has attacked a flock...
...HARVARD '38 DARTMOUTH '38 Robey, g. g., Jenkins Sargent, r.f.b. r.f.b., Williams Powell, l.f.b. l.f.b., Davison Shirley, r.h.b. r.h.b., Cotter Robie (Capt.) c.h.b. c.h.b., Barslay White, l.h.b. l.h.b., Land (Capt.) Earle, r.o.f. r.o.f., Osterhout Davis, r.i.f. r.i.f., Brown Simpson, c.f. c.f., Freeman Sleeper, l.i.f. l.i.f., Clark Tyler, l.o.f. l.o.f., Beatmann