Word: truant
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...Young Stribling, truant "Georgia schoolboy," flashed to a decision over Tommy Loughran, Philadelphia light-heavyweight. Two heavy nonentities padded out the program...
...Wonderful Visit. Another dream play, less truant. It achieves a Messianic message without driving one's tear ducts bankrupt. H. G. Wells and St. John Ervine, in dramatizing Wells' early novel of the same name, have discarded much of its pungent satire, playing safe with more drama. They set forth the earthly visit of an angel, intent on spreading sweetness and light, who finds himself gradually steeped in sticky mortality. He seeks tolerance for a lovelorn housemaid left with a war baby, lashes a war profiteer who forces his attentions on her, agitates the lady of the manor...