Word: night
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...club, careful to mix its shots, has produced such classics as Everyman, Twelfth Night, Dr. Faustus; such a novelty as W. S. Gilbert's Tom Cobb, or Fortune's Toy; such modern plays as Biography, High Tor, The Petrified Forest. Last week it tackled John Webster's difficult Elizabethan horror play, The Duchess of Malfi, proved itself braver than Broadway, which last produced the play in 1858. (Two seasons ago Orson Welles planned to do it, got cold feet...
...night, when the hero was proved not to be illegitimate, someone yelled: "Consider yourself unbawstardized...
...actors (who otherwise play their roles straight) have made a game of altering their lines if the crowd beats them to the draw. Thus the villain, when led away by the police, pauses to say "Foiled!" He was almost licked one night when the crowd shouted not only "Foiled!" but "Baffled!" "Beaten!" "Frustrated!" "Outwitted!" "Trapped!" "Flummoxed!" He waited until the wits were through, then hissed: "Stymied...
...handful of U. S. high-school kids prepared last week to do-or-die for the Lou Gehrig Cup. Emblematic of the national high-school football championship, the big, silver trophy will be awarded annually to the winner of Miami's "Health Bowl" game. Scheduled for Christmas night this year, its proceeds will be donated to the "Fight Infantile Paralysis Campaign...
Highest point in the high jinks was a Gone With the Wind costume ball night before the premiere, attended by 6,000 celebrants, movie stars and executives galore, Governors of five former Confederate States...