Word: casting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hesitates to describe the new Guild offering at the Hollis. "Wings Over Europe" as an intellectual drama with an all male cast, for there is no surer way of doing one's two cents worth toward keeping the mobs from the box office. It is best to add that intellectual describes only its lasting appeal, though as it reaches you over the footlights the appeal is primarily emotional, and that its womanlessness arises simply because the play is concerned with atomic rather than the usual spermatozoic processes...
...Harrington '30 is directing the Christmas play of the club for a second time. The musical part of the play has been under the supervision of J. S. B. Archer '30. The cast includes: Julia Bygrave '30, of Radcliffe, as Mary: H. G. Meyer '30, as Gabriel: and R. H. Jones '30, as Joseph. Robinson has aided in the direction of the work...
...rank and file of Harvard students can hardly be expected to concur with this view and suspicion has already been aroused against what seems to be an artificially imposed British cast to the plans for Lowell House. The difference in social habits and the aims of higher education existing in the two countries precludes the possibility of any wholesale grafting of England's educational system upon that of the United States. Undoubtedly there are some features of the English system which may be useful in an American College, but just what these are can be more soundly determined...
...black Republic of Haiti last week cast a shadow of concern over the White House. Prompted by bloody disorders there, President Hoover sent out of his office two despatches: 1) an order to the Navy to reinforce U. S. troops already on duty in Haiti; 2) a special message to Congress. In this message the President said...
...Merry Widow first appeared in Manhattan in 1907, was last revived in 1921. The Widow of the present revival is a comely Dutchwoman, Beppie de Vries, who sings Franz Lehar's score considerably better than the rest of the cast and wheels through the famed waltz with the requisite abandon...