Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Neither Pearl Harbor nor the grey dawn of Tax Day (see p. 15) had cast a shadow on the sale of women's hats. This year, as in 1941, girls in school, girls in factories, wives of workers and fighters, will deck their waves with some 130,000,000 bonnets...
...consistency of tone present in such Lubitsch successes as "Ninotchka." For instance, take this case: a Gestapo agent, speaking of Jack Benny's acting, says, "What he did to Shakespeare, we are now doing to Poland." The basic plot is a natural for Benny and Miss Lombard, who are cast as Josef and Maria Tura, the leading actor and actress of Poland. He is an actor who revels in Hamlet; she is a devoted wife who enjoys an occasional flirtation. The swift destruction of Poland halts their theatre careers and they become enrolled in the underground movement. From there...
...Cast in the four lead roles are M. Willoughby Todd of Radcliffe as Balkis; Robert Soule of the Medical School as Soloman; Marjorie Rice of Radcliffe as Butterfly's Wife; and Philip Stolar of the New England Conservatory of Music as Butterfly. The Pierian Sodality will supply the orchestra...
Colonel William A. Smith, post commander, sat in the front row throughout the performance, and mounted the stage to congratulate the cast on a "magnificent show" when it had ended...
...theatre art that has reached Boston this season. The play itself is beautifully written and is especially remarkable for the deft characterizations of the type that made Lillian Hellman famous in "The Little Foxes." Even more outstanding is the fine acting on the part of the entire cast. There is not a single role which could be called easy, and there is likewise no role that is not played excellently. The three refugee children are portrayed with careful emphasis on the difference in background that makes them seem so strange to Americans. Lucille Watson, as their wealthy grandmother, turns...