Word: casting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senator La Follette's show will be cast along the lines of Author John Steinbeck's best-selling novel, The Grapes of Wrath (TIME, April 17). The persecution of Westward-wandering "Okies"* by California cops, sheriffs, labor contractors and such organizations as the Associated Farmers will be staged by expert Directors La Follette, Elbert Thomas of Utah and a third Senator to be appointed...
...slaughter at Omdurman with which Horatio Herbert Kitchener in 1898 avenged the massacre of General Gordon and the British garrison at Khartum, 13 years before. For Four Feathers Hungarian Alexander Korda, the Union Jack's most industrious cinematic flagwaver, sent his director-brother, Zoltan, and practically his entire cast to the Sudan, where they stumbled over some of the actual shells Kitchener had left behind, tottered in temperatures of 120° in the breeze. Able Actor Ralph Richardson, who suffers a sunstroke in the film, never mimed more realistically...
...mature, meaty picture, based on the novel Memory of Love, by veteran bucolic Bessie Breuer (wife of Muralist Henry Varnum Poor), In Name Only has its many knowing touches deftly underscored by Director John Cromwell, brought out by a smoothly functioning cast. No surprises are the easy ad-libbish styles of Stars Grant and Lombard, the enameled professional finish of oldtime Actor Charles Coburn as Alec's conventional father. Surprising to many cinemaddicts, however, will be the effectively venomous performance, as Alec's mercenary wife, of Cinemactress Kay Francis. Having worked out a long-term contract with Warner...
...diocesan finances, Bishop Ablewhite said he could reveal nothing until Bishop Tucker felt ready to release a formal statement which the Michigan bishop had sent him. After Bishop Ablewhite's hasty trip south, Bishop Tucker gave reporters a statement which upheld Bishop Ablewhite's personal honesty, cast some doubt on his judgment...
...from writing about Cape Cod, used the big blow of 1938 merely as curtain raiser for The Ownley Inn. Before the final curtain, when the stolen New England Primer (value: $60,000) is recovered, and broken-nosed Puss Clarke makes up with his ex-fiancée, a full cast of summer folk and Down East worthies have sauntered across the stage...