Word: casts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan last week the U. S. Government edified U. S. citizens with a continued story about spies. Cast as villains of the story were 18 defendants indicted (TIME, March 7 et seq.) as German agents...
...strain can be perpetuated because, according to the Mendelian three-to-one ratio, only one in four of the young rats manifests the lethal defect. Four of the females littered last week, and the colony now numbers about 30. Since zoologists by studying such anomalies can cast more light on the mystery of heredity transmission in the chromosomes, several U. S. scientists have expressed great interest in Dr. Dunn's new boarders. He plans soon to ship specimens to other laboratories...
...week in Manhattan was caused by the first exhibition of paintings by famed Muralist Diego Rivera's German-Mexican wife, Frida Kahlo. Too shy to show her work before, black-browed little Frida has been painting since 1926, when an automobile smashup put her in a plaster cast, "bored as hell...
...lion & lamb relationship of its major characters will eventually resolve itself. However, if it has often been told before, the story has rarely been told better. Richard Wallace's direction, Paul Osborn's screen play, Franz Waxman's score and the acting of precisely the right cast combine to make it the wittiest and most civilized cinema comedy of the year. Good sequence: Colonel Carleton and his son, whose morning diversion is watching excavations, discussing Capital and Labor while they wait for the noon whistle to blow so that they can go to lunch...
...most ambitious tour de force so far, Testament is Author Hutchinson's try at assimilating Russia: a Russian novel, with an all-Russian cast of characters, covering the last years of the War and the first years of the Revolution. In its length (693 pages), its crowded, turbulent background, its hero-intellectual (a Christ-like count who opposes both Tsarism and the Revolution), Testament is clearly patterned after the novels of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky...