Word: skill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...greatest inroads have been made upon the integrity of the players; for the present generation anything goes. Pinball is now but one part skill and two parts subterfuge. Three notorious methods of foul play are the Chicago system, the Toledo jam, and the Oklahoma ride...
...bored undergraduate. Wishing to wile away a few minutes, the easiest machines to win on, according to repair man Tom White, are in the Cottage Grille. For the semi-pre, Harry's Arcade Spa contains the best selection, ranging from the latest bombastic bellringers to the vintage '89 skill trials. In my case, all agree; stay away from Boston's monster arcade nickel gobblers everyone...
Edmund Gwenn turns in a ripe performance, in the Fyffe role, as a drunken, bragging Scottish father; there are some memorable Technicolored registrations of solemn night skies and sullen landscapes; and the sequences in which the competing dogs work their sheep have a silent, lovely concentration on pure skill that makes the rest of the picture worth idling through. Thunder in the Valley is no Lassie and certainly no To the Victor, but it is a pleasant, gentle retelling of a fine old story...
...duty comedian, Walter Aikman showed confidence and good taste, while his various musical numbers were well-sung. William Whitehead appeared only in the last act, but his duet "Down Among the Dead Men" with Aikman was the high point of the show. Indeed, the ensemble numbers throughout showed more skill and confidence than the solos. Francis MacNutt's general buffoonery as Hodge, the manservant, carried the play through its weakest moments with uproarious success. Dick Murphy and Peter Davison were properly romantic over Marty Hopkins and Fraueena Thomas; all four showed musical skill in their parts...
With two hockey victories that can best be called unexpected behind them, the Crimson skaters will try their skill once more tonight in facing Boston University at the Arena...