Word: sets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...played by any number of persons, though six is the ideal set. One player, the Banker, starts out with little tickets representing $5000 in bank notes...
...Wilhelm. Next day Stresemann was buried with peaceful pomp. Not a militarist, there was not a uniformed soldier in his cortege, which was led by members of his Leipzig student corps, bearing his student cap, which now lies with him in his grave. The funeral's pace was set by the dull thudding "Death March" from Gö;tterdämmerung (The Twilight of the Gods*), interrupted by low, whining air planes from which whipped taut black streamers. One automobile was in the procession, that of Widow Stresemann. Led by grizzled President von Hindenburg, who left the sad line...
...odder still that, although Louis Parker's old play is no more than effective theatrical plum pudding, it should seem at times almost literary. Both of these facts are principally due to George Arliss, who has played Disraeli so often on the stage that if set back 60 years he could probably double for him in the House of Commons. He gets across the complicated plot, making you believe in the crafty little minister who loved peacocks, gardening, and Queen Victoria, and whose servants were all Russian spies. Best shot: Arliss making the Governor of the Bank of England...
Grant Mitchell is one of those actors who are perennially the same, who year in and year out, choose the same sort of ingratiating part for themselves, and when a new one fails to appear, and they find themselves faced with joblessness, set to work and revive an old one. Sometimes they make huge hits that way. More often they fail miserably. And still more often they turn out to be the kind of undistinguished, evenly flowing, slightly more than mediocre production that wended its quiet way across the proscenium of the Plymouth Theatre last night...
...seven Sophomores in the starting lineup and the playing throughout the game seems to indicate that the season may at least prove more successful than the past few have been. There was of course apparent in Saturday's contest a good deal of ragged play which Coach Carr will set out to eliminate in this week's work. HARVARD WORCESTER Faude, g. g., Whittaker Catinella, r.f.b. l.f.b., Tillin Stollmeyer, l.f.b. r.f.b., Wilson Howe, r.h.b. l.h.b., Walker Kane, Booth, c.h.b. c.h.b., Rice Bland, l.h.b. r.h.b., Barnes Grover, r.o.f. l.o.f., Leibovich Wight, r.i.f. l.i.f., Fulka Broadbent, c.f. c.f., Larson Frame, l.i.f. r.i.f...