Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blaring music, and earthy young Jean Peters, has neglected to furnish a blood and thunder plot. Of course, there is a photoplay, something about Cortez and the Inquisition and the trials of chivalry; but in the category that counts, the number of varlets pinioned per reel, it falls woofully short. Power himself suffers more than all his adversaries combined, culminating with a grievous wound in the left shouder...
...production was neither its play, which was interesting if at times overdone, nor certainly the performances. The stage devices were a distinct weak spot-the vulgar and obvious music smacking of 19th Century melodrama, the sets shabby and clumsy, and the arrangement of the piece into a number of short scenes out-of-date and annoying. Victorian elements and language aside, however, the evening was distinctly an unusual and rewarding...
...Barclay's opinion, the New Look at Soldiers Field come spring practice will feature plenty of pitch outs, spinners, short punt formations and the like...
Discussions. The second book, The Anarchist, is better. Laid in 1903, it is the story of Esch, a short, red-faced, powerful bookkeeper who in a phlegmatic, almost indifferent way: 1) gets mixed up with the Social Democrats when his friend is jailed in a shipping strike; 2) becomes a partner in a theatrical venture featuring lady wrestlers, his task being to recruit the wrestlers; 3) seduces, or almost takes by assault, a middle-aged widow who owns a restaurant, and subsequently marries her. The book is a succession of drab quarrels over boardinghouse tables, dull arguments over money, cynical...
...Steve Washburn accounted for the other two. But Tiger defense help up well to bottle Harvard's attack while their own offense held a steady advantage. Once more, Johnny Chase started in the nets and took the brunt of the scoring, most of which was perpetrated while Harvard was short one man. The summary: HARVARD (4) PRINCETON (8) McKean lw Roberts Rey c Clarkson Sears rw Elsaesser Washburn ld Ryerson Greeley rd Bernard Chase g Callanan...