Word: cast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cast and production are competent. Two relatively unknown players, Minor Watson and Ann Andrews, give promise of important futures in that final act which they play from first to last uninterrupted on the stage...
There was not a whisper in the gallery. They had it all to themselves. Outside, the grey skies of Northamptonshire cast a twilight about the old house, blurring the trees that lined the avenue up which no one came. Everyone else, indeed, had gone long ago, but still they stayed-beauties, wits, gallants, a decent sheet pulled over the face of each in the silence and shadow of the voiceless gallery...
...without being a beauty, but her youthful figure, lively modesty and modest familiarity make her a prodigy." The portrait was painted at the time of her wedding. Seven years later, she sat to Gainsborough, and his portrait of her shows a woman whose face had taken on a pensive cast and her body a buxom rotundity-not quite so buxom, on the tactful canvas, as her contemporaries are known to have found...
...mist down a narrow London street; in bad doorways, sailors' knives flash; the rain beats a tattoo of talons on the windows of the house of Quong Lee; the wind sniffs under the door. Tom, the Hardcress Kid, is safe now, warm, dry, nor does he try to cast over the shiverings of his penury any glamour other than that which properly belongs to peril overpast. His book will interest some because it is a fine piece of prose, some because it is the story of a man who knew too well that dingy code of the Ivy Restaurant...
...Congressional Committee went to Manhattan, set itself up in the Waldorf Hotel and began to take testimony on the air service needs of the U. S. The inquiry was extended to include civilian connections of the aeronautics industry and it brought on to the stand a widely varied, colorful cast of characters from the industry...