Word: cast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Millrose games (see above), another record was broken. It was done, many believed, by virtue of a dissolute, cast-off track-shoe. Harold M. Osborne, famed Illinois jumper and Olympic Champion, carefully placed that old shoe beside the special runway which had been marked out for him at one side of the jumping posts. Many athletes believe that in a cast-off shoe, as in a saint's relic or the trophy of a holy war, lodges some curious potency ; and who shall say that Osborne's was not charmed? For, after acutely regarding this raffish talisman, Osborne measured...
CANDIDA-A new dress for one of the Shavian standbys. Katherine Cornell adds her usual brilliant personality to a consistently capable cast...
Hungry students in quest of squash courts will have to remain hungry it was decided as a result of the election held at the squash courts which resulted in 180 votes favoring 8.45 o'clock, the present time, as the opening hour of the building and 164 ballots being cast for advancing the time to 8.30 o'clock...
...performance of Mr. Clive in the title role. "Uncle Anyhow"; the comedy by Alfred Sutro at the Copley Theatre this week, is hardly worth the attention of the Boston public. The other members of the cast offer sincere and finished portrayals of the lesser parts, a comment scarcely necessary in a discussion of the Copley Players, but the play itself is an inconsequential thing. Mr. Clive is so delightful, however, that he not only saves the piece from mediocrity but even makes it rank as one of the most enjoyable offerings of the winter at the Copley...
...cast as a mild-mannered don from Oxford, who "used to be a philosopher but has retired now". He becomes interested in the family of an impecunious inventor who has spent his whole life working on ideas which the conservative British government brands impractical or over-ambitious. The inventor's older daughter takes to the chorus and the younger to the teaching of dancing in an eternally losing struggle to make both ends meet. "Tiny", the dancing teacher, falls in love with a wealthy but quite useless young man, whose parents-firmly forbid the match. Here the lovable "Uncle Anyhow...