Word: cast
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THREE MEN ON A HORSE. George Abbott directs a revival of the 1935 comedy about a composer of greeting-card verses (Jack Gilford) who whiles away his commuting hours by hunch-picking horses with uncanny clairvoyance. The cast is superb, and the entire production is polished to a high gloss...
...written as part of a government-funded WPA program to support artists, the Washington powers-that-be cut off funds for the performance. The theatre scheduled for the opening night performance was sealed to the audience and actors. While the audience stood outside the theatre, a member of the cast found another unoccupied theatre and the play was presented there...
...city council will elect one of its number as mayor when it takes office next January. The post is largely honorific, but the mayor does chair the School Committee, and cast a vote there. When Vellucci announced his candidacy, he said, "Never in the two years as may or would I ever indulge in any politics as far as the school children are concerned...
Under the system, each candidate must have a certain quota of votes in order to be elected. The quota is set by dividing the total number of votes cast by the number of seats to be filled plus one. Then, add one vote to the quotient and there's the quota. The idea behind sitting the quota at this level is to make it low enough for candidates supported by a minority group to get elected, and high enough to make the elections more than a matter of chance...
...Statue of Liberty or something. Now that I've come to an age where they think I might disappear-they're fond of me." At her insistence, the theater is kept at a bone-chilling 60° for rehearsals. Last week, noticing that almost everyone in the cast was sniffling, she arrived one morning with a box of sweaters. Dumping them in her dressing room, she announced that they were for anyone who was cold...