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...paid coaches is the difficulty of changing the game and giving it back to the players, for the rule-makers either are those same coaches or represent the groups or committees who engaged them, and who rely on their judgment. Therefore they will make no rules which would spoil their plays or "system" as it is called, which is their stock in trade...
Taking the viewpoint of the spectator Mr. Moore opposes the new rules, because they would spoil the suspense of the game. "If we suppose a case where there are eight or ten plays left to be made, and the team with the ball is one touchdown behind, everybody will know that there is little chance for that team to gain 50 or 60 yards to make a touchdown...
...acting by being natural, and is there by doubly convincing. No less excellent was the performance of Miss Freedmar as Hannah. These two were easily the outstanding figures, but no one in the cast was inferior. Dudley Digges slightly overdid the part of Jimmy Caesar, but not enough to spoil it, and Brandor Peters was sturdy if not brilliant as Andrew...
...triteness of the plot did not spoil this play, the unplausibility surely would. The American girl, in a moderately daring boudoir scene, causes the German colonel's death. The next minute the American officer--a captive in the chateau--enshrouds the German lieutenant-colonel in his khaki coat and has the firing squad mistakenly shoot him dead. Then the American contingent goes and nails the German general for good measure. Being fed up on such glorious killings, the auditor might expect to see Von Hindenburg shot through the heart for the final curtain, but the authors have not got that...
...trifle unusual. The same photographer who went to Princeton also got up early enough to snap one of the R. O. T. C. companies passing through the Stadium gate on a rainy morning. His enterprise again gave a picture that even the wet weather couldn't quite spoil. Among the "newsy" pictures are those of the victorious Freshman cross-country team and the new Sophomore class officers...