Word: cast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...kicked and dragged out by the hair and beard upon their last appearance (TIME, Jan. 25). Is there not some faction of such insignificance that its opposition is tolerated for decorative effect? There is. Giovanni Giolitti, five times Premier, and his twelve "independents" who boast that their votes are cast according to the merits of every question, are tolerated by the 384 Fascists who virtually make up the Chamber. Last week, as the bill presented was of vital import Communist Deputy Costantino Lazzari tried to fight his way into the Chamber armed with an umbrella which he wielded vigorously. Strong...
...Northern supporters, on the other hand, are reactionaries. All the Chinese Conservatives, monarchists, and oligarchs have allied themselves in the face of the Cantonese threat. The insurgent generals and their bandit chiefs have cast aside their differences. The armies of the Peking government are composed of a dozen different and unrelated factions, whose only common motive is the resistance of reform...
Opening last week at the Majestic after long runs in New York, Chicago, and points west, Mr. Shubert once again displayed for conservative Boston an all too ripe review--the lines diluted, the cast watered, the costumes, after the first few scenes at least, padded. Even the actors and the chorus seemed to realize that they were in Boston, that laughs would come hard, and --"oh what...
...more character the better in the cast of the new play. Miss Tobin plays the part of the young woman in distress who happens in on a misogynists house party, and she plays it as if she were All Women, or Beauty in Distress, or some other such all embracing symbol. And Genevieve Tobin is not much good at symbolism. She is too much herself. It may be true that any women try to be all things to all men, but it takes no more than a Genevieve to prove that some of them fail...
...falls upon the rest of the cast to be properly individualistic. They embrace types, but they stamp themselves with definite personalities, take upon themselves all the characteristics of their narrow fields and rise above them to give a very fair performance. There is a retired divorce court judge, a bachelor of eighty-one, at an age when foolishness is characteristic and wisdom remarkably forthcoming. There is the host, an anti-feminist who of course gets caught, and who ought really to have known better at his age. There is the bachelor, who was jilted thirty years ago, and the married...