Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: Butte, Mont. may have a book all to itself but why should anyone from there be happy about it? Natives from the "World's Richest Hill" have a good reason to be damn good and mad at the editors of TIME for the disparaging remarks cast upon their fair city when you referred to it as a wench, dissipated and uncorseted. Either term used singularly and in the mildest sense surely borders on infamy...
...walls against natural rubber just to keep some synthetic plants going. "I believe in cheap tires and more of them," he said, "and the only way to get that is to use the tires that are made by nature, whether it be rubber, or guayule, or cryptostegia." These words cast a momentous shadow of the possible future struggles over the fate of war-born U.S. industries...
...cast as solidly British as Yorkshire pudding understands perfectly the naive glamor which should invest the characters in a story for children and lends the dogs excellent support. That the shabby, endearing little dog named Toots fails to run away with the show and bury it like a bone is due only to the startling magnificence of Pal, who plays Lassie, and to the remarkable abilities of Rudd Weatherwax, who trained and directed...
...This is the Army," screen translation of Irving Berlin's all-soldier stage musical, continues for its second week. The screen version offers some elaboration over the stage hit, having in addition to the original cast of 300 soldiers, many stage and screen stars. The songs are tops...
...cast is practically the same as that which held sway on Broadway for almost a solid year in '42. Tod Duncan acts and sings a human, impressive Porgy, and Etta Moton, while lacking some of the physical characteristics needed to show Boss as the walking bundle of sex the composer intended her to be, has the voice and acting ability to make up for her weaknesses...