Word: cast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Negress, a skinflint, a town bum, a lovely girl, a lover and four other friends and enemies of theirs. Scarcely any of them knew anyone else was there; all were caused much uneasiness by noises of others seeking lost papers, pouncing on each other, shooting, screaming. Members of the cast not on salary included an apparition shooting up through the floor, a spectre over the fireplace, a skeleton jigging in an open closet. Parts of it were fairly funny...
...that "Les Miserables" qualifies with "Don Juan" and "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" to a place in that small and select group of movies which have successfully recounted one of the classic themes of literature. In the first place, "Les Miserables" was produced in France with an entirely French cast so that we are spared the painful experience of seeing Hollywood blondes in the role of early nineteenth century Parisian beauties and handsome Anglo-Saxon heroes in the part of Latin apaches. In the second place, there is scarcely a flaw in the artistic perfection of the producers' achievement. Scenes...
...then most of the performances are adequate; with the exception of Mlle. Andree Rolane in the part of the child Cosette (you would swear that the youthful actress couldn't be more than ten years old) few of the cast could be called exceptional. On the other hand the general standard is high, and the performances of M. Gabriel Gabrio as Jean Valjean, of M. Jean Goulont as Jawert, and of M. Saillard as Thenardier are thoroughly, convineing...
...Nuremberg, which contains the originals of many works of art duplicated at the University, was keenly interested in the Germanic Museum. The New Fogg Museum was described by Dr. Zimmermann as the finest new museum building he has seen. Dr. Zimmermann pointed out that the Nuremberg Goose-Man, a cast of which stands in the foremost of the Germanic Museum here, is not available for any museum, as it is kept in a public square of Nuremberg. But the wood study, from which the original statue was developed, is in the Nuremberg Germanic Museum, and is placed just inside...
Another reproduction which attracted Dr. Zimmermann's attention was the cast of the Nuremberg Madonna, the original wooden statue of which, made in the work-shop of Peter Vischer, is conceded to be the finest early German sculpture, and is in the Nuremberg Germanic Museum...