Word: cast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leading male part in the operatta is played by A. W. Daggett '25, while the principal feminine role is acted by Miss Elizabeth Worcester. The supporting cast of 13 men and 20 women, exclusive of the 12 dancers, includes J. F. Lautner '21, who was the leading man of the production staged last year. The scene of the operetta is Venice...
...Take a Brace", the Hasty Pudding show, will open its Boston run at the Plymouth Theatre tomorrow night, with a second and third performance on the following two nights; the Friday presentation being the final appearance of the season. In addition some of the members of the cast will take part in the Actors. Benefit performance to be given at the Colonial Theatre on Friday afternoon, the presentation including the "Will You Marry Me?" number from the second act and selections by the jazz band...
...Snodgrass, Mrs. Winkle and Miss Tupman, each with a "ticket" all her own, fought with stubborn bitterness for the President-Generalship. The "most aristocratic ladies in the country" argued and expostulated for long hours on their relative merits adjourned to drink innumerable cups of tea, and returned to cast their ballots and lose their dignity. When feelings ran high Miss Tupman suddenly withdrew to throw her weight-hardly a lady-like performance-to Mrs. Snodgrass, and pandemonium broke loose...
...child, and resolves to marry her old suitor from New Jersey-when it develops that he, too, is a successful bootlegger. The real father then conforms to the exigencies of the plot by reforming under the beneficent charms of the child. A happy curtain is rung down. The cast is well selected, and Alice Brady, who takes the leading role, gives, according to the critics, a notable performance. Heywood Broun: "We saw one of the finest performances the American theatre has known in our time." Percy Hammond: "Nice, rough, nursery stuff, calculated to charm the sophisticated drama lover who wishes...
...MACHINE - Expressionistic projection of an humble Babbitt called Mr. Zero. A satirical arraignment of bourgeois justice by Elmer Rice, who has performed the miracle of achieving the Theatre Guild by way of Broadway. You AND I-The Harvard Prize Play, by Philip J. Q. Barry, with the best balanced cast in town. Clever dialogue and shrewd observations of manners, morals, and institutions in the younger generation. THE LAST WARNING - The season's best shilling shocker at about twelve shillings a seat. But worth it. Mechanical tricks and theatrical ingenuity employed with spine-chilling effect. THE LAUGHING LADY - Ethel Barrymore...