Word: casting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last but not least among the group's activities have been the radio presentations. On October 13, a small cast under Rapaport's leadership put on a skit called "A City is Like a Man." The point of the show was that the city is like a human being, that had to have a certain amount of integrity to maintain its place with the other cities. Hynes has rated this performance as one of the most effective efforts in his campaign. The group hopes to go on the air again before the election...
...interesting material had been used up in the first film, and as a result the sequel's plot is pretty pallid. Jolson, torn between the desire to return to the stage and the feeling that his time has passed, moons about despondently while the rest of the cast worries out loud about him and tells him he ought to relax...
...years passed, and the A.F.L.'s Green, the C.I.O.'s Murray and the miners' Lewis became the Big Three of U.S. labor, John L. Lewis never hesitated a second when he had a chance to chuck a cast-iron insult at his former brothers-in-labor. Samples: "I have explored the head of William Green and, believe me, there is nothing there"; "a pusillanimous little man who sees ghosts at night"; "the A.F.L. has no head-its neck just grew up and haired over." Furthermore, rumbled old John L., Philip Murray was "innocuous, feeble and namby-pamby...
...cast, if not notable, is likable and young, and fortunately includes one girl-willowy, blonde Kyle MacDonnell-for looks, and another-Singing Comedienne Nancy Andrews-for laughs...
...High Places. Leda and the swan (which Evergood intended to represent "nature" and "man's ideals") were elegantly drawn and painted to shine like new snow, but the picture fell apart at the top and degenerated into cartooning at the bottom. Leda's just-hatched twins were cast as symbols of race-hatred. The prize they fought for, a cracked Easter egg in the background, was filled with gold coins...