Word: roles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is a strong element of the ironic in the Crimson's remonstrance. Youth is generally under criticism for its impetuosity. But upon this occasion we find the tables reversed and the undergraduates in the role of the moderate ones...
...over the proceedings. The lights flashed off, on, off again. Amid the hullabaloo the Quillsters voted down the anti-Communist resolution, yelled recriminations at those who objected, elected Leftist Congressman Vito Marcantonio chairman of their rump unit. Mr. Marcantonio declined, but he sideswiped the purgers as actors "playing the role of international statesmen. They should go back to ringing doorbells and climbing stairs to get out the vote...
Describing his role of Sheridan White-side as "an actor's dream," Woolley said however that the part "may resemble Alexander Woolcott, but is certainly not a portrait of him." He considers that the play has been much improved since Kaufman and Hart did the third act over: "The audience expects laughs all the way through, and now they get them...
Militant democratic sympathy brands immediately as heresy and concessions to the ogre Hitler. Accordingly it rejects as insulting the vaguest mention of a peace concluded over the body of prostrate Poland. And-together with the isolationists-it emphatically demands that President Roosevelt spurn the role of peace mediator...
...Tony Mott who has returned after a two year interval. Mott played fullback in 1936 on Larry Kelley's eleven, was not in college the following year, and last Fall was pent up on the sidelines because of an early injury. Besides his ability in the kicker's role, he is invaluable on the defense...