Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Poughkeepsie, Buffalo, Philadelphia, New York, and Westchester will be the stopping points in a series of one-night stands which will occupy the entire vacation of both the cast and stage crew. The show, along with actors, stagehands, and musicians will be moved both by train and truck after each performance...
Perhaps the Odets drama has lost just a little of its fiery workers-of-the-world-unite spirit--at any rate the current Pasadena address of its anther hangs in the background to dispel any idealist fervor. But the Dramatic Club cast manages to wring from the script more of the tragic social significance than could be expected perhaps even of a professional group...
James Walker was satisfyingly oily as the evil Fatt and the other incarnations Odets gives him, and Helen McCloskey was impressive as Joe's inspiring wife, Edna. The only other standout in a very competent cast was John Mann, who in the difficult role of Agate Keller was almost perfect, setting a fine pace at the beginning of his famous closing speech and faltering only in his failure to maintain a crescendo of voice until the final cry of "Strike...
...cast of 12 of "Waiting for Lefty," a social drama of the labor movement, includes Theodore P. Allegretti '47, who played the title role in the HDC fall production of "Adam the Creator," Teaching Fellow James A. Walker, Anthony A, Piano '47, Mrs. Helen McCloskey, Miss Ronni Feldman, Ralph P. Katz '48, Michael Kahn '46, Martin Deutsch '49, Arlene Prigoff, Radcliffe '48, Palmer Dixon '50, Robert L. Wechsler '49, and John Mann...
Nancy Walker is one of these three, a futile organizer of the proletariat known aptly enough as Yetta Samovar, and she all but purloins the production, squeezing the most from both dialogue and a handful of witty ditties. All the rest of the Cast, including comedians Red Button and Philip Coolidge, are both capable and in good voice; the setting and costumes are pleasing to the eye; the chorus is young and pretty; the dancing is quite nice. Taken altogether. "Barefoot Boy" is of no world-shaking significance, but is attractive enough fare to entertain throngs of New Yorkers...