Word: season
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appeal to those who like a blend of mystery and mechanics. The technically expert setting shows the interior of one of Manhattan's Interborough Rapid Transit cars which whizzes past lights and stations. Co-Playwrights Eva Kay Flint and Martha Madison have contrived an exciting addition to the season's many slaughters...
Russians like sad stories, like the music of Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky. Hence in Russia, Pique-Dame is popular. Hence in Manhattan, last week, many a Russian went to the season's first performance by the Fine Arts Opera Company.* There Russian singers, singing in Russian, under the skilled baton of the Russian Jacques Samossoud found high favor. It mattered little to the Russian listeners that the opera is episodic and disjointed, lacking in theatrical unity; that Lisa's soprano (Eugenia Erminia Erganova) had a metallic edge and that Tenor Herman (Dimitri Criona) had to wheeze through a cold...
Coach Horween sent his team into action armed with six plays, a wider assortment than has been shown in previous opening games. These all started from the same formation used last season, the ends wide and a back in motion. Line bucks, off-tackle slants, and end runs were checked by a forward and lateral passing attack. A surprising variation in such an early game was a criss-cross. The backfields, which have been working under the experienced eye of Coach Casey, functioned in good early season order. The timing was off, on occasion, as was shown by the narrow...
...good stead. Charles Devens is a strong runner whose versatility will prove valuable. He can back, the line, run the ends, and fits into the lateral passing game well. Harper backed up the line in the usual efficient manner and seems to have more speed than last season. Mays, Sophomore flash, is an elusive ball carrier who also seems lateral-pass minded...
...trouble will be experienced in filling the quarterback post this season with Putnam and Wood on the squad. Both of these are good tacticians and their all round ability will prove useful. The former's running is good and he has lost none of his dropkicking ability. Wood, too, is a capable dropkicker...