Word: roles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...read the life story of young Vander Meer in the newspapers. They were not stirred by the fact that he had pitched five no-hit, no-run games in one season when he was 16 (for New Jersey semi-pro teams), nor the fact that he had played the role of "the typical American boy" in a movie short, nor the fact that he had struck out 295 batters two years ago during the twelve weeks he was pitching for the Durham Bulls (a Red farm)-for an average of 12.33 Per nine-inning game-and was voted...
Jane Eyre (Mon. 9 p.m., CBS). Helen Hayes returns to radio to play title role in Lux Radio Theatre dramatization of Charlotte Bronte's romantic thriller...
...Mayer) makes it clear that, having twice won the Cinema Academy's prize for acting, Luise Rainer has no intention of resting on her laurels. Eyes brimming, lips twitching and little voice choked with tears,, she goes all out for a third award, this time in the classic role of a belle of New Orleans. Unfortunately for Miss Rainer's aspirations and the entertainment value of this picture, a great deal of cinema film has run through projection machines since old New Orleans was first presented as the epitome of U. S. historical glamor. Nowadays it does...
Today's contest is the windup for the crucial encounter with Dartmouth Saturday at Hanover which will decide the Eastern Intercollegiate League race. Right hander Tom Healey, whose most recent performance was in an able relief role against California, is the logical choice to do the flinging...
...fortunate, selection. One of Playwright Barry's best friends, he started a fashion since copied by Critic Alexander Woollcott, Playwright George S. Kaufman and Novelist John O'Hara by acting in the stage production of Holiday. In this version, as in the first cinema edition, the Stewart role-that of the hero's amiably light-headed crony-is played with whimsicality a shade less grim than usual by Edward Everett Horton. Omitting his own classic monologue on "How I Invented the Bottle," Screenwriter Stewart has substituted as the role's piece de resistance a lightly Leftish...