Word: caste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cowardly attack on the physicians of George V. He insinuated that they did not employ a certain mode of treatment 'because the inventor was both an American and a Jew.' His courage was such that his insinuations−although unquestionably directed against the royal physicians−were cast in the form of an allegory and entitled An Improbable Fantasy...
...this aspect of the corporative state is kept in mind, it will help to avoid overestimating the eight million odd votes cast for the candidates of the Fashist 'party...
Sonny Boy (Warner). Cast as the title of a theme-song, young Davey Lee created in The Singing Fool a demand for a picture in which he would be starred. Few critics dared to suppose that the vehicle would be more than a sentimental nimbus around the small Lee smile. They found instead an amusing and at times witty farce involving the efforts of a mother to keep a husband, from whom she is separated, from stealing his son. Lee (4 in May) is younger and funnier than Jackie Coogan was when he made The Kid with Charles Chaplin. Best...
...with the revival of After Dark a few months ago, at Christopher Morley's Theatre in Hoboken (see above). This is another by the author of After Dark. Dragged from its pre-war (Civil) dust and presented on Broadway, its thunderous plot is played "straight" by a capable cast. For those who can get enjoyment out of making fun of abandoned sentimentalities, it provides a pleasant evening...
...first robin, flying in to music provided by Richard Rodgers. In addition it has intelligent lyrics by Lorenz Hart and a book by that oldtime craftsman, Owen Davis, who makes up with situations what amusement he fails to supply in the conversation. Not the least in importance is its cast: Glenn Hunter, making his musical debut after years in adolescent "drama" roles; Inez Courtney, who has a gift for flip clowning; Charles Ruggles, an able farceur; Lillian Taiz, whose voice is uncommonly good; Joyce Barbour, who is not given nearly enough to do; and Cy Landry, a dancing droll...