Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dean who goes home to his Ovaltine whenever the action gets hot; a radical editor with the playwrights' universal sign of radicalism-a shock of hair; and a telephone voice answering to the name of Hot Garters. Leon Ames as the former midwestern star back for homecoming is cast to perfection. Even without a capable set of actors, however, the Thurber humor in the lines would still make "The Male Animal" highly entertaining...
Arsenic and Old Lace (by Joseph Kesselring, produced by Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse) is absolutely top farce. A violently funny and batty murder play, it might be described, in the words of one of the cast, as what could be expected "if Strindberg had written Hellzapoppin...
...must reckon with the possibility," said Dr. May, "that the exodus from Egypt was under the aegis of the snake deity of the Levite tribe, Nehushtan." Moses' rod turned into a serpent when God told him to cast it down (a miracle later performed by Aaron before Pharaoh) and the snake rod was later used by Moses to bring the ten plagues on Egypt...
...Schock cast about for a scheme to insure perpetuation of his business and put his money to Christian employment. Last week he thought he had one. He converted his business into a trust and provided that, except for a modest living for himself and wife, its income should go to public schools in the districts served by his company (mostly in Lancaster, York and Dauphin Counties). There were no strings on how the money should be used. But each school district's share depended on two things: 1) the number of its pupils, 2) the amount...
...cast is excellent, especially Eleonora Mendelssohn as the sad, contained Jewess, Paul von Hernreid as the prideful Nazi, and Betty Field as the war-sick bride. But Playwright Rice is so anti-Nazi that the play has a flat taste, like propaganda...