Word: castings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...central imagination. Even should it choose to disregard the perplexity of a bewildered public, the Dramatic Club would seem to owe to its members the opportunity to show that they are not really morons, even though they have acted the part for the last several productions. Situated with both cast and academic audience able and ready to grasp subtlety of characterization and of plot, it is to be hoped that this fall the Club will bring Harvard Drama out of the dregs of strange and usually blood thirsty societies into an intelligent civilization...
...York stages last season. A. A. Milne is the author and succeeds in constructing a well-knit and logical mystery story in his first venture into a new genre of writing. In the company are Vivian Tobin, Richie Ling, and Harry Beresford, as well as the complete supporting cast from the New York showing. "The Perfect Alibi" will open at the Plymouth Tuesday...
...gratifying. The picture in question is "Illusion" now showing at the University. It is a well-directed and effective tragi-comedy based on the present day American social system. The theme is by no means a new one, but it is attractively presented and capably acted by a good cast. Nancy Carroll in the supporting role is particu- larly worthy of mention...
...pyramid casts the minimum shadow for its cubic capacity. Conversely, an upside-down pyramid would cast the maximum, keeping the lower floors in shade at all times. At high noon the towers would be completely in their own shadows...
...Yale brother, the Harvard House Plan displays potential qualities not found in its companion. Built around the class, the Yale idea is beset with the danger of bringing out the narrow, provincial features inherent in any confined social unit. To intensify the unit to this extreme is to cast aside one of the greatest benefits of the plan the university ideal of the intermixture of mutually agreeable men to different stages of intellectual evolution...