Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With star hurler and captain Bob Leahy sidelined by a chipped elbow, MelCollard's mediocre Boston University nine are due for their third defeat of the season at the hands of Harvard's smooth-playing, slugging 1939 varsity batsmen on Soldiers Field today...
England. Twenty years ago a genial Englishman named John Collings Squire, parodist, poet and expert cricketer, launched The London Mercury. Its main aim was to publish poetry, especially the work of his friends, Robert Bridges, Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon. Well-printed, heavy, smooth, The Mercury was appreciated by poets because Editor Squire, if badgered awhile, paid real money for poems. The Mercury's eminence grew with well-phrased reviews, contributions by Hardy, Conrad, Shaw, Chesterton, essays on town planning, transport, education. But its circulation stayed around 4,000, disappointing Editor Squire, who once gave his credo...
...manufacturing town in Connecticut, it contains no Communist character, goes light on leftist propaganda. Conceit rather than the C.I.O. accounts for the fact that the villain, Tycoon Loring, finally gets the whole town down on him, including the high school football team. With its neat plot and smooth dialogue, The Stars and Stripes Forever is a sort of left wing Satevepost story-an attempt to adapt to left wing fiction the technique of catching gas bombs and tossing them back before they explode...
Outstanding pitcher is Lou Clay who, though not yet at his peak, hold Augusta Military Academy to one hit during vacation. Clay has a good change of pace, coupled with a smooth delivery. He is expected to shows marked improvement when spring sets in. Al Pitchford and Ed Reddy rank below Clay...
...appropriately fragile, and who contributes a mad scene (IV-V) as effective as any in the play--the Lord Chamberlain is exasperatingly hasty and foolish. Humor, too, enters into Mr. Graham's skillful portrayal, especially when the utmost is wrung from his interview (II-II) with the smooth, villainous King (Henry Edwards) and the sensual, light-witted Queen (Mady Christians). Only from the ghost, who--in spite of the effective lighting--falls between abstract ghostliness and the human wisdom and tenderness which Shakespeare intended, could more be asked. All in all, Maurice Evans' "Hamlet" is so good that, unanimously...