Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last night announced the names of leading cast members for its production of Adam the Creator, which will be shown in Sanders Theatre the week of November 11. In the title role, playing the dissatisfied man who destroys and then tries to re-create the world, is Theodore Allegretti '47 of Eliot House. Allegretti also played the title role in HDC's "Playboy of the Western World." Sharing the spotlight, Robert Lubchansky '48, will play the part of Alter Ego, whom Adam creates with the hope of embodying in him all the things he would liked to have been himself...
Opera, Italian style, is flourishing in all its prewar luxuriance-a little haphazard by German standards but vocally superb. While in Rome I witnessed an outdoor performance of Aïda with nearly a thousand people in the cast of characters, done on a lavish scale that made Radio City Music Hall look like a miniature. Italy shows no signs of a cultural letdown. It is excited, exuberant and ready...
...express the gratitude of the Japanese people to General MacArthur . . . is not to worship him as a god but to cast away the servile spirit and gain the self-respect that would not bow its head to anybody. Only thus would MacArthur rest content...
...title role of Ariadne, Manhattan's up-&-coming City Opera Company cast tall, stately, 38-year-old Ella Flesch, a Hungarian exile who had once been Composer Strauss's own choice for the part. A soprano prodigy ("In my cradle I had tones") she sang Aïda at the Vienna State Opera Company when she was 18. Four years later Strauss heard her sing Rosenkavalier. He put her into the leads in Elektra, Die Frau ohne Schatten...
...Tails (Universal-International) takes place in the never-never land of romantic farce. It is an agile, simpleminded frolic about a butler, an heiress and a gambler. Dan Duryea, whose pinched, deep-frozen face has heretofore made him particularly suited to playing down-at-heel mugs, is oddly cast as a typically uppity butler...