Word: casts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With such a play, actors must make caricatures, not characters. Hence one can only judge the cast on their satirical ability, not their acting ability. But as satirists, the road company does a good job. They are not the original cast that appeared on Broadway, but for entertainment purposes they might have been just as well as not. Elizabeth Love, playing Cindy Lou, has none of the hamish inclinations which far too many road actresses have. She gives a performance that hits above specifications, combining magnolia-and-mint-julep sweetness with the righteous violence of a "snit" to make...
...Kiss the Boys Good-bye" might be funny even with mediocre handling, but with a cast that's on the up-and-up, the play at the Wilbur adds up to a sum total of swell comedy...
...held in the Ford building, under the auspices of the Harvard and Princeton branches, the parley will lay the groundwork for concerted action on the interventionist issue by all colleges cast of Ohio...
...operations for brain or spinal-cord tumors. A great proportion of these operations are performed by strong, sociable Dr. Byron Stookey in the green-tiled operating room domed with a glass observers' balcony. Sleepy-green nonreflecting arc lamps designed by Dr. Stookey spotlight the site of operation, but cast no shadow, generate little heat. Dr. Stookey performs scores of operations for the relief of "intractable" pain. Victims of agonizing, incurable cancer, for example, can usually have their last days made easy by a simple severing of certain nerve tracts in the spinal cord...
...Munchkin Village" and the "Emerald Palace" call for a long and lusty yawn. Ten such scenes aren't worth one of Judy Garland singing "Over the Rainbow" against a two-bit photo-drop, or Bert Lahr chewing his tail. As a matter of fact, the none-too-distinguished cast has run away with the show, leaving the lavish sets sitting around without much to do. Bert Lahr may go rolling down through the annals of film history as an all-time high in Cowardly Lions. Even Judy Garland has accomplished the remarkable feat of being nice without being "sweet...