Word: caste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eight years has the Metropolitan rocked with that potent explosion which concludes the last act of Giacomo Meyerbeer's Le Prophète and brings an entire castle tumbling in ruins upon the cast...
PORGY-A Negro cast acting a Negro tragedy with eminent ability...
Conspicuous in the cast was Mrs. R. Bartow Read, whose name and address are in the social register, amateur actress making an amusingly competent professional debut under her maiden name, Hope Williams...
...striding figure of a woman whose skirts are blown backward in a prairie breeze, who carries a Bible in one hand, leads her scampish belligerent little boy with the other. This had received most votes in eleven cities; by far the largest total out of the 123,000 votes cast...
...stage that night something happened. Faust was given in English, by an all-American cast, and given so intelligently, with such complete concession to the beauty of the whole, that Washington, dull musically, waxed enthusiastic and fairly hugged itself in the thrill of a new discovery. It was a Faust rejuvenated, lifted well out of the operatic rut, a Faust as true to the spirit of Goethe's poem as to Gounod's music. There was no portly prima donna past her prime to parade as the guileless Marguerita, no heroic stage devil preposterously horned and tailed...