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Nerves. Probably when the discerningly competent John Farrar and Stephen Vincent Benet are more experienced in the Theatre, they will look back upon Nerves and wonder why they ever did it. It originated as a one-act War play, was spread thinly through three acts and emerged as such an inexpert contrivance that the critics quite lost their tempers. The story discusses a young aviator with a bad heart and too much imagination who went to War, funked his duty, was driven to it, crippled himself for life getting his Boche. There is also a girl who decided with difficulty...
...challenge round of 1924 Davis Cup play.* Lurking near the Longwood (Boston) courts a third Australian, sagacious, seasoned Norman E. Brookes, gave counsel to his countrymen between sets. In Manhattan, the East played the West, tied 3 matches each. For the first time in his young life, Vincent Richards (East) won an important match from "Little Bill" Johnston (West), second ranking player of the U. S. In doubles, Richards and Francis T. Hunter, who together are Wimbledon and Olympic champions, trounced the indefatigable, ubiquitous national doubles champion-brothers Kinsey. Thus Richards bore the brunt for the East, while "Big Bill...
...obvious that such adventures must be discussed by the most suavely proficient of players in the lightest and most sophisticated of moods. Laura Hope Crews as the Duchess, Leslie Howard as the Professor, Marion Coakley as the daughter and Vincent Serrano as the butler lend just those touches that make the whole thing possible. Despite their silken methods, the purple patches of the play are as dull as they are daring, while the rest of it is light comedy in its most advanced and animated state...
...semi-finals found Tilden facing Vincent Richards, his onetime protege and doubles partner, now Olympic champion. Tilden had brushed aside all opposition, losing two sets only in four matches, one to Alonso, sleek Spaniard, one to Howard Kinsey, ubiquitous Californian and national doubles champion. "Little Bill" Johnston was in the other bracket, up against Gerald Patterson, smashing Australian...
...Play for the national mixed doubles title was interlarded with the men's matches. By the end of the week young Helen Wills and young Vincent Richards were left to face the 1923 champions, Molla Mallory and "BigHearted Bill" Tilden. The younger pair, on a hair-trigger edge, fired away brilliantly, bagged the title...