Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dances are particularly fine, displaying the same blend of comedy and vigor that distinguished her choreography for "Annie Get Your Gun." Two of the best numbers display a remarkably long-limbed and proficient dancer called Laverne French, who fits neatly into the bizarre Tamiris routines. The rest of the cast does not measure up to the company this production offered in New York last year, either as actors or singers. Nonetheless, it captures the spirit of the walking-stick, the courtesy and the graceful bow, which is, in essence the spirit of "Show Boat...
...human tribunal ever conceived could try that case, with its clouds of witnesses, the surging contagion of its guilt. Yet the mind, squinting at the horror now that the tide of blood had washed back, naturally cast the evidence in the familiar and dreadful form of The Trial. The world, with one war still red under its nails and another beating in its belly, knew, more or less subconsciously, that it would have to build a prisoner's dock bigger than the subcontinent of India, that the crime was not contained by geography, and that the less the crime...
...York-Sunbury was no Liberal pushover: the Liberals had been able to capture it only twice (1935 and 1945) in 33 years. Furthermore, for the first time in the riding's history, the ambitious young socialist CCF Party, which polled only 1,674 votes out of 22,644 cast in 1945, was trying to make more than a token race...
Hollywood, which is said to be dickering for the novel, should be able to cast this machine-turned story in roughly five minutes. Gregory Peck would be a natural for the lean, dedicated young atomic scientist. Dorothy McGuire would be the girl who cures him of a wartime neurosis and ultimately wins his love; Walter Huston her fabulously wealthy father with entry into every embassy in Europe; and, possibly, Sidney Greenstreet as a Nazi physicist who swipes a valuable discovery from the scientist...
With Stone out for an estimated three weeks with injuries received Saturday against Dartmouth, and Chuck Glynn still wearing a cast on his hand, the Crimson center position at present is "non-existant," according to Harlow. "In view of the present situation, we are canvassing the squad to get anyone who has played center before." Ends Johnny Fiorentino and "Stretch" Mazzone both have high-school pivot experience, and may prove to be the chief contenders...