Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mots still remain, together with sketchy outlines of the plot, such as it is. And with some very pleasant music and some clever lyrics by a couple of freshmen in the musical comedy business, named Sidney Lippman and Sylvia Dee, and most especially with Nancy Walker in the cast, the book becomes a secondary matter. It's built around a sharply-pointed parody of Joe College on his home grounds tossing out below-the-belt punches at the fraternity system, big dumb football heroes, Big Men On the Campus, Student Council elections, and particularly at the amateur left wing. Wrapped...
...write in a part for Shirley Booth, a competent comedienne from Hartford. When she was permitted to stick to her element, Miss Booth, who can make almost any line seem funny, managed to carry the play. But when she was obliged to join in with the rest of the cast in thrashing out the problems of marriage, Miss Booth sank to the same level of purpose-lessness that here colleagues and the author had established...
...heavyweight fight. Powerful spotlights flooded the auction ring in front of the clubhouse, making the horses nervous as they were led in one by one, numbers glued to their hindquarters. Everybody who amounted to anything in Southern California's racetrack and cinema industries (an almost interchangeable cast of characters) was there...
Even some of the tiresomely conventional things about this picture are unconventionally done. Most of the cast, for example, are rich, well-dressed and nice to look at, but the observation of this glamor world is sharp and disenchanted...
...undergraduates prepared to cast their ballots for House representatives to the Student Council in today's elections, Levin H. Campbell, 3rd '48, retiring Council president, last night announced a four-point proposal which he will recommend to the new Council at its first meeting tomorrow night...