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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just as well. Judging from the remainder of John Whedon and Sam Moore's script, it seems doubtful that they are capable of the kind of light-handed satire required for the Luce spoofing; particularly since they ride so clumsily down two already well-worn musical comedy ruts--Texas and Southern politics...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 11/2/1949 | See Source »

...share in the anti-Texas feeling one hears frequently voiced, it does seem that a whole evening devoted to variations on this single theme is too much to ask of anyone. All of the other rural jokes are there, too: the Scars, Roebuck catalogue, the outhouses are good for two laughs, and so on. Several of the lines are of questionable taste, and one remark goes beyond bad taste. It occurs when the political scum, Hominy Smith, toys with the idea of becoming president. "Why not," he asks, "Truman did it, didn't he?" That seems to me clearly over...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 11/2/1949 | See Source »

...energetic and talented cast. By a great deal of work some good may come of it. But as it stands now, it is considerably below the level of some of the less-successful Pudding shows, and a good deal like some of them in that it falls between two chairs. Of course, the girls are real in this...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 11/2/1949 | See Source »

Yesterday the freshmen served as a defensive unit against which two varsity teams ran offensives for nearly an hour. Simultaneously, the Jayvees were working Princeton plays against defensive units...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Drills Heavily in Second Day Practice | 11/2/1949 | See Source »

...There is a bare suggestion," Weston said, "that at one time there were more than two sexes in some of the lower organisms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Weston Analyzes Plant, Animal Sex | 11/2/1949 | See Source »

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