Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Comique. It was a performance to deter anyone with a less unrelenting ambition. In the heat and humidity, the Opéra-Comique's production of La Traviata was so languid that it threatened to expire with each bar. The tenor bleated woefully and the rest of the cast missed cues and acted with the decisiveness of a group of tourists lost in the sewers of Paris. Nor did it help that Edis sang the role of Violetta in Italian and the rest of the cast sang in French. During the first act she tried to wake...
...180th performance of Benn Levy's British farce, Springtime for Henry. In 15 years of off-&-on touring, Henry has brought Edward Horton almost $1,000,000. This summer, for the fifth consecutive season, Edward has taken the old boy on the summer circuit with a supporting cast of three (Lilian Bond, Elaine Ellis and Matthew Smith) and the prospect of an average $1,800-a-week net to add to Horton's earnings...
...York, Philadelphia, Schenectady and Washington last week. Opening night, NBC televised a speech by FCChairman Charles R. Denny (from Washington), a variety show, some boxing bouts from Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, a film of Arturo Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony. By early 1952, NBC hopes to cast its net from coast to coast. One big obstacle to the big plans: A.T. & T.'s proposed cable rates-almost ten times the rate for radio broadcasts...
...behold, I have gained two other talents. . . . His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant. . . . He which had received the one talent came and said, Lord . . . I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth. . . . His lord answered, Thou wicked and slothful servant. . . . Cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth...
...Medium, and its frivolous companion piece, The Telephone.* When Tallulah Bankhead saw The Medium, she went backstage, dramatically fell on her knees before Marie, and exclaimed: "I have been moved by three performances in my lifetime: John Barrymore in Hamlet, Jeanne Eagels in Rain, and you." For the entire cast of six she had a typical Tallulu: "This is the only play . . . that has thrilled my soul and chilled my guts...