Word: caste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alfred E. Smith, from present indications, will receive a clear majority of both the popular and electoral votes to be cast this fall. No such jugglery as followed and set aside the elections of 1868 and 1876 can prevail...
...last month. Son Arthur Smith, a blond young man of 21, last week took up speechmaking. He asked support for the "courageous and honest leader of the Democratic Party" and said: "You know I am the luckiest boy in the world to receive my first vote in time to cast it for the man I have the honor to call father. ... I think my father is the best fellow in the world. . . ." Al Smith Jr., too, made speeches...
...Henry Hull, written by one Lemist Esler (Yale Drama School product), and directed by William A. Brady Jr., was not, as history has imagined him, a murderous medieval wardheeler but on the contrary, a single-hearted patriot whose love-life was unfortunate. An overwritten text and an overdressed cast somehow made it seem improbable, uninteresting...
...even to arouse the enthusiasm of artists capable of crying in a prosperous wilderness. Then, last week. Maxwell Anderson (coauthor of What Price Glory) and Harold Hickerson (piano-theory teacher at the New York Conservatory of Musical Art) aided by Director-Producer Hamilton McFadden and a seasoned cast, delivered a play which caused youthful Marxians to applaud for five minutes after the first night curtain, aided in their bravos by seasoned play-goers who knew they had seen a good play...
Jealousy is played by a cast of two persons (Fay Bainter, John Halliday) and a telephone. Its one set is a neatly furnished studio; offstage noises are confined to round knocks upon a resonant downstairs door. Jealousy, which Eugene Walter derived from the French of Louis Verneuil, will be a popular play among little theatre addicts who have no cash...