Word: casts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...South's balance of power had been clearly demonstrated. Lacking Southern support, Franklin Roosevelt was beaten on every Congressional front in July and August (TIME, August 14); with it he won clearly in the Senate last fortnight, in the House last week-where 95 Southern votes were cast for repeal of the arms embargo, two against...
...make this ambitious tragedy, producers took Maxwell Anderson's Broadway success, Elizabeth the Queen, had scripters tack on a new beginning. Knowing she acts nothing so well as a neurotic tantrum, they cast Bette Davis as the Queen, pulchritudinous Errol Flynn as Essex. Director Michael Curtiz was retained to pile on the pageantry. The result is a sumptuously Technicolored spectacle with some lyrically lovely scenes (hawk-flying), some eerie ones (Irish bogs...
...comes to a close. Gladys George, as a considerably washed-behind-the-ears Texas Guinan, follows in Cagney's wake and gives him all the acting support he could ask for. But it is an insult to all Harvard graduates, past, present, and future, that Jeffrey Lynn has been cast as a product of our fair institution...
...mentioning the performance itself, of course, remarks might be passed on about the remarkable costuming, about the Savannah heat-wave, Rose Brown, whose Kaisha was vaguely reminiscent of Josephine Baker, but it's all quite futile. The show belongs to the great Bojangles. The rest of the cast can only be thankful that they have a chance to do something in the first act, for when Robinson comes on in the second, he takes over and all the rest of the cast can do is sit back and shrug. It would be nice to bounce one's grand-children...
With a final airing of their dirty linen, local politicos concluded their campaign for city offices last night as Cambridge prepares to cast its votes in the final election today...