Word: excel
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Torch Song. Few playwrights excel Kenyon Nicholson (The Barker, Eva the Fifth) in exploiting honkytonk, backstage or carnival scenes. Few producers can put on a better show of this sort than Arthur Hopkins, who directed and helped write Burlesque. A Hopkins-Nicholson collaboration has now resulted in an extraordinarily valid and impressive play called Torch Song...
...vehicles in which she has appeared include: Beyond The Horizon, Back Pay, A Good Bad Woman. Hot Rhythm. Producers of Negro reviews almost always make the mistake of trying to ape the elegance of contemporary Caucasian extravaganzas, as though afraid that just dancing and crooning- at which blackamoors often excel whites- are not sufficient for an evening's entertainment. For this reason, the comedy of Hot Rhythm is often unfunny, the attempt at magnificence unimpressive. Best, most natural humor in the show is offered by plumpish, sleek Mae Barnes, who delights many a spectator with her slatternly, lazy dance...
...from England six years ago it was with the reputation of having made Bach recitals as popular there as cricket matches. In the U. S. he has essayed other composers but it is Bach which best suits his immaculate, flowing style. Bach at which no other pianist can excel him. His Yale course will be limited to twelve students of already passable piano technique...
...Frederick B. Robinson, President of the College of the City of New York upheld in a recent statement the theory recently advanced by President Lowell that the younger undergraduates at colleges generally excel in scholarship those of more mature years...
...will be able to muster up power enough to turn them back. The Maroons are a heavy, bruising outfit, but good as they were they were no match for the Boston team when the precious goals were needed. It is in the matter of teamwork that the Bruins particularly excel. When a streaking forward gets by the opposing defense he can be pretty sure that one of his teammates will be right up there with him to take the pass and nullify the efforts of the goalie no matter how good he may be. And that's not only true...