Word: casts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Latest in the never-ending stream of De Mille productions, "Union Pacific"-- now at the Met--is like all his others in the grand scale of its theme and the fragmentary method of presentation. The cast of thousands, the romanticized history, the premeditated lavishness and panoramic effect--these are all present. But the story, which concerns the building of America's first transcontinental railroad, is amenable to this sort of treatment; and the screen version has been made with unusually great attention to detail. As a result, the atmosphere of frontier times--composed of the amusing savagery of the Indians...
...rumbling in the background, "He Was Born Gay" is a fantasy woven about the legend of the Last Dauphin. Written by Emlyn Williams, staged by the Harvard Dramatic Club under the leadership of Jock Munroe, the play shows thought and skill on the part of the writer, director, and cast. Rough edges were smothed, the surface polished, and the performance was well-rounded and unified...
...effort to produce pains-taking and careful interpretation of the play, cast and director neglected to give it the life it needed. The stiff, high collars of Empire dress were reflected in a stiff performance. Perhaps this was due to first-night jitters, perhaps to the artificiality of a costume play, but whatever the cause, the result was a little too dignified, too well-polished...
...adopted, the other, Mary, whose birth in 1950 cost Producer Jed Harris two weeks' pay for the rest of the cast of Coquette when Mother MacArthur's confinement closed the show. Unsuccessful defense by Mr. Harris: that Mary's birth was "an act of God." † Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt last fortnight "adopted" a Spanish Civil War orphan, Lorenzo Murias, 12, through an organization called the Foster Parents Plan for Children in Spain, by which refugee children are kept in France at a cost to U. S. foster parents of $9 per month...
Fuhrer Hitler has never been much of a reader, but he has a passion for the cinema. He sometimes has three or four full-length pictures run off for him at one sitting, knows the cast of every German movie comedy. (Another memory feat: ability to give by heart names and descriptions of all U. S., British warships.) Favorite cinema repeaters now are the U. S. films Lives of a Bengal Lancer, Viva Villa! He likes variety shows and his old preference for Wagnerian operas seems to have given way to light operas such as The Merry Widow...