Word: castings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Members of the "Menaechmi" cast of the Harvard Classical Club will hold a meeting tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock in Holden Chapel...
...Village of Sin (Amkino). People have learned to expect in any modern Russian film a cast of well-chosen actors and actresses with difficult names, acting competently and intelligently without makeup on their faces, so that they do not look like actors and actresses but like men and women. People have learned to expect photography so quietly beautiful or so imaginative that the best effects of Hollywood technicians seem artificial or flamboyant by comparison. They have also learned to expect doses of tedious propaganda extolling communism and episodes in which unnecessary impressionism takes the place of ordered storytelling. This picture...
...Cocoanuts (Paramount). The libretto of Irving Berlin's four-year-old musical comedy is reproduced without many amendments and with some of the original cast. Mary Eaton and Oscar Shaw, who have always done well on Broadway, sound like people singing on an old phonograph record with a blunt needle. It is doubtful whether the urbane, uproarious clowning of the four Marx brothers will seem funny in districts rural enough to admire the routine dance-numbers. Best shot: a wheel-ballet from overhead...
...most bullish of the bulls is William Crapo Durant, motor and market man with reputed large holdings in Chrysler, General Motors, International Combustion, Montgomery Ward, U. S. Cast Iron Pipe, Warner Bros., and many a speculative favorite. Inasmuch as the first five of the half dozen listed closed last week at only a few points above their lows for the year, Mr. Durant was widely rumored as having been pressed for margin and as liquidating much of his holdings. There was a suspicion, indeed, that the Durant shirt, if not lost, had at least been temporarily mislaid. It was also...
...result of trials for parts in the Latin play, the "Menaechmi" of Plautus, which the Harvard Classical Club is to present next winter, the directors of the production, Professors E. K. Rand '94 and F. C. Packard '20 and Mason Hammond '25, have announced a tentative cast...