Word: cast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST ? What many consider Oscar Wilde's best comedy glibly brought to life by a good cast from the Actors' Theatre...
Furthermore the cast has lost two of its most important performers and collected only one notably apt substitute, a girl "named Bobbie Perkins. She is dark and she dances and everybody liked her. The rest, aspiring artists who solve the mob and the servant problems in the various Theatre Guild productions, were confidently capable...
...their physical vigor, malicious wit and crudest humanities. Scores of characters crowd the stage, each closely observed in real life's unmistakable habiliments, from the principals clear down to Schallburger, the labor organizer, and Sim Pratt, slick soda-jerker. There are smashing scenes, but toward the end the cast gets completely out of hand...
After all, one cannot effect and certainly does not desire to find in the Lampoon the night-life brilliance and paid by the inch satire of the professional humorous publications. The Jester is a genial soul, his irony is gentle, hand-wrought, not cast, his fancies are his foibles and not his bread and butter. Life, especially college life, to him is a thing to be enjoyed, and not exploited. It, is possible, he has found through observation of his neighbors, to pass the time in all manner of absurdities, but he prefers to laugh and that late...
...desolate Vadso on the north tip of Scandinavia, 700 miles from Leningrad (where she had waited two weeks for repairs and good weather on her way from Rome-to-Nome). Pausing only long-enough to refuel and bundle themselves more thickly in furs, Colonel Nobile and his mates cast off again and sailed all through another Arctic night, out over Barent's ice-strewn sea for Spitzbergen. The headwinds that had buffeted the Norge over Russia, causing her to wallow and pitch like a great grey air whale, changed to following winds that added speed and made life more...