Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were some changes in the cast of characters. Elderly (73), dignified Judge Henry Goddard, an appointee of President Harding, took the place of Judge Samuel Kaufman, an appointee of President Truman. A jury of eight women and four men took the places of the two women and ten men who, last summer, had so sensationally disagreed as to whether Hiss was guilty of perjury. At the defense table the Harvard-trained Boston lawyer, Claude B. Cross, had replaced the flamboyant Lloyd Paul Stryker...
...tunes for six weeks while Reed recorded a sound track. When the film was released two months ago in England, Karas' music caused as much of a furor as Reed's directing, Graham Greene's lickety-split script, or the acting of the all-star cast (Joseph Cotten, Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard...
...after irate citizens had banished from exhibition a plaster cast of the Discobolus, famed Roman copy of a Myron statue, because the discus thrower was nude, Novelist Samuel (The Way of All Flesh) Butler wrote a satirical ode to the city...
...orchidaceous never-never land of languor and burning kisses, and contains the memorable exclamation (made, of course, by a female character): "If I live to be forty, it was a moment I shall never forget." ¶ Prancing Nigger (1925), which has an all-colored cast, is laid in the region of a Firbankian Haiti. It tells how members of a backwoods family at last achieve their dearest ambition-to gate-crash high society in Cuna-Cuna City. Under its dancing, smiling surface run strong undercurrents of human sadness and disillusion. It is Firbank at his best. ¶Concerning the Eccentricities...
There are a few scenes that come close to success--the servants gossipping in the kitchen, town characters at the pub. Among the characters, James Mason is kindly and venerable, Barbara Mullen patient and faithful, and Margaret Lockwood sufficiently distracted for her part. The whole cast acts far above the lines...