Word: castings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...textile industry began dipping from its peak to its present debilitated condition. Causes for the decline were: 1) the unionization of Labor with its new power to dictate higher wages, to call gory strikes, to obtain protective laws; 2) increased taxation; 3) increased cost of power. The mill owners cast anxiously about for a refuge from their troubles. The South, particularly the western sections of the Carolinas, seemed attractive...
...presents a group of Englishmen confronted with the single and terrible protagonist of the war and inevitable violent death. Their reactions, intensified to the last degree, make for scenes of heart-breaking dramatic beauty. Colin Keith Johnson establishes himself as a great actor in the play and his supporting cast, all men, is excellent. The drama, for those interested in dramatic craftsmanship, demands more than one visit...
...which by many standards quite over-towers any other on view at present in New York is "The Cherry Orchard" by Chekov, consummately produced by Eva Le Gallienne's earnest little band of repertory players in the rickety old Civic Repertory Theatre on Fourteenth Street. Nanimova heads the cast of the play which depicts the slow defeat of a noble Russian family ironically treasuring its unproductive cherry orchard, only to finally see it chopped down by a newly rich peasant who buys the estate...
...sorrowful reflection that is cast on the Dramatic Club, and on the University as a whole, that these words which were once so unanimously the sincere praise of critics seem now like the bitterest irony? Granted, the Club may have openly changed its policy, but I think that Harvard still might expect from this organization the continuance of a tradition which played no small part in the making of Harvard University. Even if circumstances brought about the loss of Professor Baker and his guiding hand, the work which he inspired might better have been encouraged, rather than have been abandoned...
...strive to tread the tremendous and slippery path of the golden mean. Whether this is due alone to the quality of the acting which lifts the audience safely over the soft places, it is difficult to say. Enough that the fact remains that the work of the small cast of five is practically without exception excellent...