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Kirkland tennis players fared no betters, as J. C. Wood and Corey Wynn were the only Deacons to win matches in the 5 to 2 Davenport victory. Barker, Ruml, Bradlee, Hough, and Sibley all lost to their Yale Opponents at New Haven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deacons Lose to Davenport in Tennis and Baseball; Berkeley Trims Goldcoast Golfers; Crucial House Track Meet Today | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

...yesterday's tennis matches the Deacons blanked Winthrop 7 to 0 with a team composed of Wynn, Barker, Bradlee, Hough, Sibley, Ruml, and Pressly. The Elephant racquetmen trimmed Adams 4 to 3 despite the valliant efforts of Goldcoasters Ross. Warehan, and Watkins. Dunster barely edged Dudley 4 to 3 as Lowell clipped the Bunny's cars...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOWELL, DEACONS, ADAMS CONQUER IN HOUSE GOLF | 4/22/1938 | See Source »

Sharing credit with Wynn for the show's success is able Vincente Minnelli, trained in the hard school of movie stage-shows, who directed it and designed the scenery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 13, 1937 | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

Hooray For What! (book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Grouse; music by Harold Arlen; lyrics by E. Y. Harburg; produced by the Shuberts). Coming after bad advance reports, last-minute cast trouble, and fears that Ed Wynn had been so bad on the radio that he would keep a theatre audience away, Hooray For What! proved to be an ingratiating show, with Comic Wynn just as funny as he used to be. Sometimes the plot shuffled dully between old-fashioned musicomedy and pretentious satire, but it ceases to matter when Ed Wynn comes on. wringing his hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 13, 1937 | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

...Hooray For What! Wynn is an innocent from Sprinkle, Indiana, who has invented a gas to poison worms. He and the gas are taken to Geneva and used to make a war. If poison gas were a more humorous subject, the play might have been better. On its own or in other surroundings Paul Haakon's "Hero Ballet" might have been brilliant. But it is flat in an Ed Wynn show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 13, 1937 | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

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