Word: castings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...part in writing this ineffectual piece should dictate to him the confines of his metier. He is not a playwright. Obvious, intermediate lines try without success to sketch Iscariot as a better man, really, than Bible History makes him. He who is hard of hearing would enjoy the personable cast, the good settings by Jo Mielziner, but the hard of hearing go to the cinema...
Thus, irony in its most logical form. Alabama gave both Heflin and Underwood to the Senate. In cast of mind and in frame of opinion, the two men were a million miles apart...
Shadows of the Cambridge under-world are reported to have cast their sinister menace over the traffic box in Harvard Square night before last. The unseen peril came in the from of a threatening missive from "Feagan's gang" delivered by a "tool" in the guise of a Cambridge schoolgirl. One of the city's most beloved officers, the friend of children and Harvard Square merchants, was informed point-blank that he was going to be "bumped off" last night, probably in cold blood. The unfriendly import of the note precipitated a furore in Cambridge police circles, possibly second only...
...political ambitions. Instantly Pearl from one Genoa hotel rushed to Jack in another Genoa hotel. Frith-Walter congratulated her on influencing her husband to renounce Labor, secretly regretted that his son should abandon political ideals-indecent though they were&#!51;out of mere passion for a woman. But Pearl cast herself upon Jack, swore it should never be said he had given up his political career for a woman, announced that they were immediately returning to England to stand for Parliament-Labor...
...gives Ruth Chatterton the opportunity to turn in one of the best performances of the year. As the wife who is frustrated in an attempt to escape from an unhappy married life, she succeeds in presenting a vivid and subtle characterization. The plot is simple but furnishes the able cast with a very interesting problem in domestic ethics...