Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Love Me Tonight" has a slight edge on its companion piece in entertainment value as well as in the amount of impressive talent it displays. This story of a tailor who successfully woos a princess has the light directorial touch of Rouben Mamoulian and some superb Rodgers and Hart songs, including "Isn't it Romantic," "Mimi," and the immortal "Lover." C. Aubrey Smith and Myrna Loy are featured players, along with Charlie Ruggles as a flat broke viscount and Charlie Butterworth, that incomparable old-school comedian, as Chevalier's and eyed rival for Miss MacDonald's hand. "One Hour With...
...Crimson is a slight favorite in tonight Big Three content and would be a much stronger bet had not Captain Myles Huntington and Shorty Minot been named in last Saturday's 4 to 1 defeat at Yale. Huntington will play, but with a stiff charley house leg and Minot will probably is out entirely with a wrenched knee. Cob DiBlasio should see action, but he will be nursing a bruised eye suffered in the BP game...
...Eliot himself was, as usual, far from Broadway. Last week, just returned from a holiday in South Africa, and with a slight tan covering his bookish pallor, Mr. Eliot was back in his accustomed London haunts, primly pacing his familiar round. His day began at 8 a.m. At noon, after a man-sized breakfast of tea, porridge, bacon & eggs, he set out for his place of business, the publishing firm of Faber & Faber, in Bloomsbury. He left his flat in Cheyne Walk, Chelsea (Expatriate Henry James used to live in the flat just below), wearing an impeccable dark blue suit...
Although comparative scores had made the Crimson a slight favorite, the match cannot be termed an upset due to the home court advantage. All three victories in the fight for the Big Three title were gained on the victor's own courts...
Judging by the comparative Harvard Yale-Princeton scores, Coach Barnaby's team will enter the match a slight favorite. The varsity beat Princeton, 8 to 1, here, and Princeton edged out Yale, 5 to 4. However, until the Princeton match, the Elis had won 46 straight contests on their home courts...