Word: cast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Everyone is familiar with the parable of the talents, and how the man with one talent who failed to use it was condemned and cast into outer darkness. Sometimes one can wish that the story had been differently told, that it had been the man with five talents who had neglected to use them to the fullest extent, and had therefore been condemned, for to whom much has been committed of him will be required the more. Duties he upon a man according to his power for good and evil. Those who can do only little must do that little...
...announcement goes on to state that no further action will be taken until the committee has reported, and that a similar vote has been cast by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...gradually built up definite formulas the following of which, no matter how obviously, seems to insure success. In the case of the latter, "A" generally represents the person to be murdered in the first chapter; "B" is the extraordinarily beautiful girl, somehow related to "A", upon whom suspicion is cast by the local police; while "C" is the famous detective who solves the various "mysterious", or "sinister", forces--"Z to the nth power"--which surround the murder and emanate from "X", the villain or unknown quantity. The formula is then derived by cancelling "A" with "Z to the nth power...
...them of whose Victorian conventionality one would be painfully aware were it not for the skill of rendering. Mr. Clive's curtain speech, "She sha'n't, she sha'n't, she sha'n't", at the end of Act Two is an excellent example. Without exception however, the cast rendered their parts well. Miss Cleveland was occasionally unconvincing and Mr. Turner's Romeo-like sobbing under the stress of grief was a bit absurd. But these are minor points. If the Jewett Company never dropped below the level of their current production, we should have little cause for complaint...
...dramatic effort of the semester was the production of Barrier's "The Admirable Crichton" on Twelfth Night, January 6. The play was repeated at the American Sailors' Club in the city a week later at the dedication of the new sailors' gymnasium. Half of the cast was composed of English members of the Hissar Players. The high artistic excellence of the performances was largely due to Dr. Watson who, besides taking the part of the English aristocrat, Lord Loani, coached and directed the play...