Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week a Coast Guard troupe of 67 enlisted men & women played a four-a-day musical show called Tars and Spars in Vancouver's Beacon Theater. On Sunday the cast, including its bright particular star, Chief Boatswain's Mate Victor Mature,* lunched at the swank Capitano Country Club. Later a new, 85-ft. Canadian Navy tug stood by to take everybody for a joy ride. Chief Mature and most of the troupe pleaded other engagements. Sixteen SPARS and five tars accepted...
Peggy Ann Garner, a lovely child, is perfectly cast as the plain-pretty, primly sensitive little heroine. Dorothy McGuire (Claudia), though much too young to play her mother, again proves herself one of the most accomplished young U.S. actresses. But the standout of the picture is ex-star Jimmy Dunn as the weak, gallant father. Publicity writers did not exaggerate, for once, when they called his performance "the most sensational comeback in years...
...Solomon, source of the title of his standing-room-only hit, The Voice of the Turtle. In Manhattan and Chicago, the Voice's two companies were putting up a losing fight against winter, rain, snow and sniffles. First, Star Betty Field (who replaced Margaret Sullavan in the Manhattan cast last month) came down with flu. Hollywood's Florence Rice took her place. Then Actress Rice began to sniffle. Producer de Liagre raided his Chicago company, had Understudy Nancy Holland rushed by plane to Manhattan. Soon after she arrived, honey-blond, willowy K. T. Stevens, the Chicago lead...
...flag flew over Manila again and with it MacArthur had brought America. In the second great drama that had spread across the Philippine stage in three years, his cast of characters was a cross section of the U.S.-leathery professional fighters who had soldiered in the islands before, bronzed youngsters called by the draft from Midwest farms, sunburnt youngsters from factory and school...
...their hearts' content, while the show itself has been changed 77 times. It has boasted a man who imitates phonograph records, a Chinese comic, a drum-majorette, a gorilla, an elderly lady acrobat; it has auditioned a bow-&-arrow champion, a camel, and a skunk. Of the original cast, only Murray and Marie Wilson have not dropped...