Word: cast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...several months, the referendum on his plan was completed; 534.177 votes had been cast in favor of it, 76,381 against it. Then gradually less and less was heard of Dr. Levermore and his plan...
With the exception of James Kirkwood, as the clubman, the cast is selected with a characteristically canny eye. Edna Hibbard, as the honest, bitter cynic of the harlots, received the maximum applause...
...music, is the basis of the narrative. There is considerable Negro harmony and soft-shoe shuffling of eminent excellence. There is a troupe of English dancing girls without which few music shows nowadays are complete. There is a pretty prima donna who can sing and a mildly acceptable cast...
...with Christmas and will probably go out with the Old Year. Unwittingly, the virtuous child implicates herself in her master's villainies. Pearls-a great many pearls-are stolen. Emmett Corrigan, who should have known better, waded around in the shallows of the leading part. Several of the cast were almost criminally incompetent. The audience tittered...
With the exception of Ernest Torrence as Hook the cast was on the whole previously undistinguished. Each in his own way contributed brilliantly to the whole. The direction of Herbert Brenon gave heart once more to those who still argue that there is imaginative intelligence in the picture industry...