Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Colorful Cast. The accused were a strangely assorted crew. Handsome Joe McWilliams, the soapbox fiührer who used to berate the Jews and laud Hitler on Manhattan street corners, got top billing in the indictment ("United States of America v. Joseph E. McWilliams, et al"). Quiet, swart Lawrence Dennis, U.S. fascism's No. 1 intellectual, sat glumly near benign-faced James True, organizer of America First, Inc., and inventor of the "kike-killer" (Pat. no. 2,026,077), a short rounded club made in two sizes (one for ladies). Chicago's Mrs. Elizabeth ("The Red Network") Dilling...
Although the situations in the play are far from now, they are given timeliness and significance by the fine acting of the cast. In addition to Miss Rivers, the dynamic acting of Marvin Forde helps the play over the rough spots. The judge is played by William Harrigan who lends sympathy and understanding to the part but occasionally lacks emphasis...
...cast is mediocre. Joel McCrea is fine as Buffalo Bill, but Maureen O'Hara, as his wife, turns in her usual wooden performance. Thomas Mitchell, veteran of many fine character portrayals, is poorly cast as Ned Buntline, the newspaperman who made Cody a household word in the East. He is unable to do his usual convincing job. Linda Darnell makes a better looking Indian than the one on the pre-Jefferson nickel, but unfortunately is not seen much in the picture...
...recent faculty dinner for Midshipmen, Don Higgins, the Iowan, had his friends impressed until he emerged from the keyboard and the player piano kept merrily on ... Chase Hall's Cast of Characters No. 2: James Devers. Devers halls from the city of brotherly love and has endeared himself to the men in his company one command by such tricks as bringing them to a smart attention, and shouting "April Fool" when the Professor didn't show ... Does anyone know why Gordon Johnson keeps a pigeon on his bureau? ... And if the swing rendition of taps on the ocarina...
...role of the Widow Quinn, who also has designs on the Playboy, will be handled by Lynn Baker, Radcliffe '46. Jack Lemmon V-12, of Eliot House and Boston, an old vaudevillian, returns to the show business as Old Mahon, the Playboy's father. Other Harvard students in the cast are William Dubey, secretary of the Dramatic Club, and James Hamilton, both V-12ers, and William Jones '46, of Lowell House...