Word: cast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Buzzard. John Collier was dead. Of that there could be no doubt whatever. But the members of the cast of Broadway's newest murder play thought that if they pretended John Collier was still alive, his murderer would reappear to investigate. So they pretended, as hard as and as long as they could. Now and again, some one of them would claim to be the culprit until at last the true culprit admitted her identity. Then the audience, which had begun to imagine that it would have to wait for a death bed confession, trooped wearily away. There...
...appropriate in a non-paying guest, this reviewer suppressed a nearly uncontrollable desire to hoot, jeer and shout "ham" during one of the worst first acts in memory. Then for no apparent reason Mr. George Kelly began to make sense through the mouths of a competent, but sorely taxed cast. The final impression was more than ordinarily disturbing. Here was a play, like it or not, and in its worst moments it brought to mind the old sentiment, "I wouldn't like it even if it was good...
...great dramatic possibilities. Though his plot may be totally unreal, it is possible, and in the main he is tenaciously faithful to it. The trouble is that he is no more able to handle a subject with the tragedic poetntialities belonging to this one, than is the present cast capable of creating the necessary stage illusion. It is case of a large, undigested bite on the part of the playwright, wrangled through by the actors to a conclusion which is powerful in spite of itself. Briefly the story concerns an unrequited love, and it must be said in due praise...
Seventy-seven hundred votes cast at the University of Pennsylvania, three thousand at New York University and the University of Cincinnati, three-fourths of the student body of little Middlebury contributing five hundred ballots--these figures indicate that American colleges in diverse sections of the country are sufficiently aroused over what promises to be a strenuous Presidential campaign to register their opinions on paper...
Today and tomorrow Harvard will go to the polls to record its party choices for the Presidential nomination. The Presidential vote is not a novelty in the University. In, 1920 and again in 1924 Harvard students, whether of age or no, welcomed the chance to cast their ballots. Displaying the sentiment of the leading university of conservative New England, Harvard's vote in a wide-open campaign will be watched with interest...