Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little girl who last term cast doe-eyed looks at you from her seat two rows away isn't doing so badly now, thank you. At any rate, she isn't if she was a member of Radcliffe...
Clarence Day Sr., impersonated by 16 actors while attracting 3,263,630 theatergoers, finally ran out of breath; Life with Father closed after a world's record run of 3,213 consecutive Broadway performances. At the final curtain the audience and cast reverently sang Auld Lang Syne. Actors wept in their dressing rooms (only one had another job lined up). An ex-member of the cast failed to spread much cheer with a telegram: "HEAR THE STATUE OF LIBERTY GOES NEXT...
Tonight only one of the students of the six-week course, Judith Hornady, will join with the six regular Equity professionals, also living at Munger Hall, in the cast of "The First Mrs. Frazier," by St. John Irvine, starring Jane Cowl...
...Only an illusion, explains Herz. Actually, he says, the sun is much closer to the earth than most people suspect; in fact, it is probably somewhere near the South Pole. What people see in the sky is not the sun, but its "reflection," cast on the earth's atmosphere. Moreover, the earth, according to Herz, rotates more slowly than is generally believed-perhaps as slowly as one revolution every 28 days. Since the dawdling sun's "reflection" whips around the earth every 24 hours, it's not very surprising that people have been confused all these years...
...debilities, the play is retrieved and made fit for viewing by several considerations. One is that it takes a lot of inept handling to obscure the dramatic facts of Joan's career. Another is Maxwell Anderson's amazing gift of producing a flow of facile, taut dialogue. Finally, the cast is enthusiastic and, in the main, knows its craft. Madge Evans, despite a vigorous between-acts clawing from the Bergman acolytes, is fluent, intent on what she's doing, and very good to look at: and Richard Crouch is quick, practical, and harried as a stage manager...