Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Except for Spencer Tracy, who, in the central role of Pilon, is nothing but Tracy wearing paisano rags, the cast is excellent. A de-glamorized Hedy Lamarr--as Sweets Ramirez, the can-factory worker-is infinitely more fetching than she ever was in silks and sables. Frank Morgan, playing the devout dog-loving old miser. Pirate, steals the show, and, as followers of Pilon, Michael Qualen, Allen Jenkins, and especially Akim Tamiroff are superb...
...Standard treatment for wounds in World War II is to trim off all dying flesh, enclose the limb or trunk in an old-fashioned plaster cast, leave the cast undisturbed for many weeks until the wound has healed. This closed plaster method prevents many an amputation, reduces infection to a minimum, allows soldiers to be moved with no ill effects. Only drawback: after a week or so the wounds develop a foul stench. Last week Dr. Allan Dinsmore Wallis and Researcher Margaret J. Dilworth of Philadelphia told how they prevented the smell by simply placing lactose (milk sugar) solution...
Because its makers took extraordinary pains to be faithful to the intricacies of show business, the show business in Yankee Doodle is extraordinarily good. So is its Grade-A cast, especially Oldtimer Huston and a pretty newcomer named Irene Manning, pleasantly singing and playing the ex-Broadway musiqueen. Fay Templeton...
...Barber of Seville (Charles L. Wagner Production, with Hilde Reggiani, Bruno Landi, Carlos Ramirez, Lorenzo Alvary, John Gurney and other artists, conducted by Giuseppe Bamboschek; Victor; 16 sides). This album is a condensed version (excerpts pieced together to make up a half-length score) sung by a second-string cast (virtually the same company which gave 65 Barbers on tour in two autumn seasons). But the excerpts are expertly chosen, skillfully welded; the singing is good; the performance brightly paced; the recording excellent. Net effect: highly satisfactory...
Merely pleasant too are most of the cast-pretty, thin-voiced Cinemactress Constance Moore, big-limbed Benay Venuta, gallery-god Ronald Graham. It's Ray Bolger's show. As husky Hippolyta's simpering, ladylike husband he is deft enough to draw many a laugh, skirt many a snicker. As a dancer he is superb-inexhaustibly inventive, unfailingly comic. But being the star of the show he has to carry too much on his shoulders to do all that he might with his feet...