Word: tinkers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvardmen accustomed to sneering at their sisters across the Common had better think twice this week, for the Radcliffe Idler is giving a performance which from every possible dramatic viewpoint dwarfs the HDC's recent efforts into supreme insignificance. Why J. M. Synge's "The Tinker's Wedding" had never been produced in the United States before Thursday night is a mystery not easily solved; but whatever the reasons, Idler is doing on outstanding job on a wonderfully amusing comedy by one of Ireland's greatest playwrights...
Idler, the Radcliffe Dramatic Club, takes a pioneering step in presenting its double bill, "The Tinker's Wedding" and "Oedipus Rex" tonight at 8:30 o'clock at Agassiz Theatre. The first, a comedy by the Irish playwright, J. M. Synge, is having its American premiere with this performance...
...Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance double-play combination was declared officially famous. Shortstop Joseph Tinker (ailing off & on in Florida), 2nd Baseman John J. Evers (bedridden with paralysis in Albany), and ist Baseman Frank Chance (dead 22 years) were finally admitted to baseball's Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. Declared white-haired Valetudinarian Evers gratefully: "That leaves me with no more worries...
...They are hounded by blackmailers; they are tortured still more severely by their inability to trust each other; they come at last to a surprise ending which, in the novel, had much the force of a mule's kick. Scripters Niven Busch and Harry Ruskin have had to tinker amazingly little with this hideous story...
Richard K. Roos '47--Irene Tinker (Radcliffe...