Word: played
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...intercollegiate chess tournament, held annually during the Christmas recess, will be played this year in New York, as usual, at the Columbia Grammar School, on 51st street, near Madison avenue. Play will begin on Christmas Day. No admission will be charged. Harvard, Yale, Columbia and Princeton will be represented respectively as follows...
Columbia has lost Meyer, who was probably next to Southard in playing ability. Falk is very conservative, and seldom makes more than a draw against a good player. Sewall is hardly as good as Boehm, who is unable to play on account of illness. Both the Yale and the Princeton teams are better than they were last year. Weston and Ely, last year's players, were beaten in the fall tournament by Henley and Hunt, the present team...
...schedule of the week's play is printed below, the first named player having the move in every case...
...second of Mr. John Blair's course of modern dramas, "Ties" (Les Teuailles), by Paul Hervieu, was given at the Tremont Theatre, yesterday afternoon. The play itself is representative of the tendencies of the modern French drama, and, as in many of its class, the author has been led by the purely psychological interest of his plot to overdraw his principal character, Robert Fergan, and to suit the demands of his climax rather than to fit the climax to his character. With this climax still in view, he has brought in a period of ten years between the second...
...John Blair will present the second of his course of Modern Dramas in the Tremont Theatre tomorrow afternoon at 2.15. The play will be the Comedie-Francaise success, "Les Tenailles," by Paul Hervieu, which, as translated, is entitled "Ties." Mr. Blair is ably supported by Miss Florence Kahn, who won such distinguished praise in the first play, "Galeoto," and by four carefully selected associates. Among the patrons of this series of dramas are several Harvard graduates and professors...