Word: castings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cast, Not Chorus...
...Come-On Man. In the last five minutes of this play's inaction, one supposed detective turned out to be a crook and two supposed crooks turned out to be detectives. The entire cast, however, remained journeyman actors with but little chance to be anything else. Playwright Herbert Ashton Jr. and his father were the pseudo-crooks...
...Guild talent.* No matter what players tread the Guild's stage, stardom is avoided. Names are not posted in lights outside the theatre or in large type in the programs. There are no solo bows, no bows at all until the end of the play, when the entire cast ap pears. Emphasis is on the play, with known and unknown actors striving and sharing alike except as to salary. The result of these policies, maintained by hard work and patience, has been the discovery of the fact that the U. S., including the hinterland, will clap hands for fine...
...thus deprived of raw materials which would very materially have assisted debt payment. It is conceivable that in German East Africa alone there may eventually be found enough gold, copper, coal and oil to pay the whole reparations bill. It is but natural that Dr. Schacht should cast eyes upon these resources, that he should remember East Prussia, now cut off from Germany by the "corridor" which Poland was given to connect her with the sea. On the other hand the "Iron Man" might have had common sense enough not to wave two red rags before two bulls. That...
...fighting throughout all their long or short lives. They made the four years of the Confederacy possible. Then they too vanished." The scene set, Hergesheimer silhouettes against it nine representative actors: ". . . the eloquent Mr. Yancey; Varina Howell who loved Jefferson Davis all her life; Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard, cast in an obligation of honor dark and ringing like bronze; Albert Sidney Johnston in the loneliness of early Texas; Captain Maffitt driving precarious steamboats, heavy with cotton, and priceless with morphia and powder and gold, into the blockaded night; Nathan Forrest charging at the head of his troops, with his great...