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...take satisfaction from the fact that the record-breaking play was about as far from a drama of escape as it is possible to imagine. And enemies of Broadway's dramacritics could enjoy remembering that almost every one of them, with the exception of the late, wise Percy Hammond, had damned the play and said it had no chance. Last week Playwright Kirkland announced that he would give several of Tobacco Road's props-a wagon wheel, a tree branch, a well, a shack-to the Smithsonian Institution...
...finals of the college singles races were run off. In the most important race of the regatta, for the Darcy Memorial Cup, given this year for the first time, Phil Wilson upset the dope by edging George Hurd, the favorite by a quarter length over the mile course. Harry Hammond took the Junior singles title for the three quarters, and Benny Hubbard upset the dope again by shading last year's 155-pound favorite, Beanie Gilchrist, in the lightweight division Hughes Call won the Nevice singles and Peter Gray the wherries...
Junior Singles: G. Hibbert, H.S. Hammond, A.L. Ruprecht, R. Blaine...
Sampling Percy Hammond's columns in the Chicago Tribune, the New York Tribune and Herald Tribune over 27 years, the book proves what a host of Hammondites have always known-that its author was not only an obliterating wit but also a first-rank critic. Born in 1873 to a merchant-newspaper family of Cadiz, Ohio, he went to Franklin College (Ohio), spent twelve years on the first Tribune, 15 on the second, grew to be a massive, silver-haired Buddha of first nights. For more than a quarter-century, he waged an acid campaign for maturity and subtlety...
...Mona Lisa, disinterested, semi-smiling, and inscrutable save for the knowledge that she insists on being paid every night in fresh $100 bills." His high irony made his pages sound flippant to the stuffy, but to all others his fastidious values were plain enough. Many actors hated Percy Hammond, many others recognized his pith. When the Chicago Tribune announced that he was being sent abroad to cover World War I, a Chicago actor remarked: "Heavens! What if he doesn't like it?" Sample Hammondisms...