Word: cast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Significance. Since it is a graceless business to cast aspersion at the work of one so justly honored as the author of this novel, it may be said that the book teems with action. Like a disorderly street seen from a window, cobbled with yellow faces, it teems; adventures shoulder and jostle; events prod each other's ribs; Sentimentality picks the pocket of Romance. One is forcibly reminded that nothing is quite so dull as unvaried liveliness. It is a book that achieves a forthright swagger that the fiction of this latter day has largely lost. Beauty in distress...
...music is generally excellent. The chorus is more important than the cast...
Rehearsals are now under way with a cast of eighteen, the personnel of which will be announced later. In spite of the size of the east, the whole action takes a little less than an hour, thus making it possible to go through it twice in one evening. The University Glee Club will render the chants and choruses necessary in the action of the play...
...cast is as follows...
...Miss Hitz is capable but by no means up to the standard set by Miss Claire. During the play the interest of the audience shifts from Jerry Lamar to Mabel Munroe, her chorus girl friend, played by Miss Olive Blakeney. One is tempted to forget the rest of the cast and to eulogizo Miss Blakeney...