Word: rowes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pitt is the only team that has beaten Notre Dame three years in a row since 1900. Notre Dame's Coach Elmer Layden waited anxiously last week until three minutes before the Pitt game ended. Then, with the score tied, a basketball star named Martin Joseph Peters kicked the field goal that won for Notre Dame...
...turn out Bright Star, which was to be as pleasant and profitable as Paris Bound. Bright Star slipped temporarily behind a cloud when tried out on the road last winter but when the lights went down at its Manhattan premiere last week, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, in the fifth row, and Joan Crawford, in the fifteenth row, both sat up expectantly in their seats. What subsequently happened boded ill for the Barry ballet...
With DuBose Heyward as his librettist, Composer Gershwin kept his work faithful to the play. The Negroes of Charleston's Catfish Row live in the same rickety tenements. They still quarrel and kill over their crap games, still shout their religion, their love and fear of ''Lawd Jesus." Porgy, the crippled beggar, appears driving his seedy goat. The simple love story is his. Bess belongs to the murderer Crown. According to the neighbors she is "a liquor-guzzlin' slut," a "Happy Dust" addict. Porgy gives her shelter, buys her a divorce although she never has been...
...play Porgy left impressions which presented a stiff challenge for a Broadway-bred composer. With music frequently inspired, Mr. Gershwin manages to give new life and importance to the Negroes of Catfish Row. Conductor Alexander Smallens raises his baton and an overture sounds out like a brisk command for attention. It is Saturday night in Charleston. A shrill trumpet sets the pitch. A peppery xylophone suggests the dice, rolling to trouble...
...crap game big drunken Crown kills Robbins and over the corpse all Catfish Row bows before death, keening and shrieking its laments, tossing coins into a saucer to assure a burial safe from medical students. Gershwin's choruses are richly eloquent then, as they are later on when a hurricane shivers the tenements and the Negroes herd together like terror-stricken savages, hearing what they think is God. knocking at the door. Critics roundly approved such moments which had the surge of a powerful musical drama. But :here were bristling arguments over many of the set songs for which...