Word: clay
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Among the leading attractions at the New York theatres next Saturday night are the following: "The Girl who Smiles," at the Longacre; "Under Fire," at the Hudson; "Chin Chin," at the Globe; "The Birth of a Nation," at the Liberty; "Hip, Hip, Hooray," etc., at the Hippodrome; "Common Clay," at the Republic; "Hit-the-Trail-Holiday," at the Astor; Geraldine Farrar in "Carmen," at the Strand; "Young America," at the Gaiety; "Miss Information," at George M. Cohan's; "Around the Map," at the New Amsterdam; William Gillette in "Sherlock Holmes," at the Empire; "Rolling Stones," at the Harris; Lillian Russell...
...rapidly that they will be ready for play a week from Saturday, weather conditions permitting. The eight courts, four of which are to be double, are already staked out and a dozen men are at work completing the surface. Six inches of cinders is the foundation for the clay courts, whose surface is to be of decayed rock. Bleachers are to be erected at the north end of the field under two great willow trees which will afford ample shade for the spectators...
...most successful plays now running on Broadway are products of Harvard playwrights, Fred Ballard, and Cleves Kinkead, both graduates of Professor Baker's Englsih 47. Mr. Ballard's "Young America" has been written since he left Harvard, but Mr. Kinkead's Common Clay", last year's Craig Prize Play which had the record run of seventeen weeks at the Castle Square Theatre, was written while here. The fact that seats for both these plays are selling eight weeks ahead is the strongest possible refutation of Broadway's former asseveration that the University's professor made playwrights are too impracticable...
With the other play, "Common Clay" the local audiences are more familiar because of its long run at the Castle Square before Mr. A. H. Woods took it to New York for presentation there. This is only Mr. Einkead's second play, the first to be produced being a one-act piece "The Fourflushers" which was first put on by the Dramatic Club in the spring of 1914. The New York stars of the prize play are John Mason and Jane Cowl, both admirably fitted for the parts for which they are cast,-as Judge Samuel Filson and Eilen Neat...
...team will leave for San Francisco early in July after preparatory matches at Pittsburgh, in the national clay court championship games. The Panama-Pacific matches begin on the asphalt courts at San Francisco, July 10. These will be followed by East versus West matches, four singles and two doubles. It is expected that several of the California players will return with the team to play in the tournament at Longwood, Boston...