Word: cast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...like "One of the Family," the current attraction at the Wilbur., for this latest play of his is like all the others that we have ever seen him in. He is as good--or as bad--as ever; the comedy is likewise as good or etc.; and the supporting cast performs in much the same way that Grant Mitchell's casts usually...
...possible doubt about the words meaning just what they do in the dictionary. And the acting is much of the same variety. Every motion that is made says to the audience "Let me explain" and there is never a good line spoken but what the whole cast violently signals to the audience "Get ready to laugh. One-two-threee...
Dictator Kondylis of Greece, a typically, hard-boiled militarist whose agents have resorted more than once to poisoning to gain his ends, announced himself greatly troubled last week by aspersions publicly cast in his direction that he is playing politics. Pinked upon this nice point of military honor, General Kondylis forthwith dissolved the minute political party of which he was nominally the head, relaxed not one iota his dictatorial powers...
...long run. He went out into the frost; presently he was joined by a wealthy citizen named Bernard of Quintaville and a canon from a neighboring church named Peter. These three built themselves a hut adjoining the leper hospital. Lepers he had loathed unspeakably. But perfect love had cast out loathing: it was on the road from Apulia. He jumped from his horse and embraced a leper. "He receives," said a Cardinal, "those whom God himself will not receive. ..." So he lived in hunger among rocks, trees, beasts. The birds, knowing his gentle heart, came close to him. Often...
...Vernon, under the guidance of George M. Cohan, makes it diddle with detectives, telephone calls, attempted murder, cross-examinations, till finally she puts an end to it all with a last tragic scene that recalls the promise of the first two. Shirley Warde carries off highest honors in the cast, though Chester Morris makes a sufficiently convincing cause of all the trouble. The lighting in Scene Three deserves at least honorable mention...