Word: casts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congressional resentment showed in the horny-handed handling it gave the ECA appropriation, in the stony eye it cast on the arms program, despite an all-star presentation by Secretary of State Acheson, George Marshall and the Big Brass in summer tans. Internationalists of proven good will were as stern as hard-shelled isolationists...
...people had ever said anything good about Pegler, who so seldom has anything good to say about anyone else. Finally, at the syndicate's prodding, Pegler remembered that "an old geezer named 'Seidlitz"-meaning, as everybody knew, of course, Literary Critic Henry Seidel Canby-had once cast him a few pearls of praise...
...Daily Express was ecstatic: "This play seems to lay the soul of America bare, throws across the footlights, flat in your face, all the hopes, fears, frustrations, inhibitions and terrible yearnings of a nation . . ." Stylish first-nighters, equally moved brought back Paul Muni (who played Willy) and his cast for 15 curtain calls. Said one sequined dowager: "I don't think I understood it all, but I certainly feel weak...
Last week the La Jolla (rhymes with Ahoy ya) Playhouse hit a jackpot with a midseason production of Moss Hart's Light Up the Sky. The cast read like that of a grade A cinema-Gregory Peck, Jean Parker, Benay Venuta, Florence Bates-and the first-night audience looked like a Hollywood première. But behind the elaborate façade was the solid work of such self-improving actors as Gregory Peck and Mel (Lost Boundaries) Ferrer, who have carried the load of running the Playhouse ever since David O. Selznick put up $15,000 to help...
...down, there was naturally some confusion about blonde, bulb-eyed ex-Cinemactress Joan Blondell's backstage ad-libbing. Producer Harold J. Kennedy, who had hired Miss Blondell for a week's stand in Happy Birthday at Princeton, N.J., said Joan used "vile and abusive language" to his cast. Joan admitted that she may have said "gosh" or "darn it." Mr. Kennedy said she threw a $40 silver hand mirror at either him or another member of the cast. Miss Blondell said it was not a mirror, it was a Kleenex and she wished it had been a brick...