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Word: casts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cast of A Queen Came By went back to their humdrum jobs-and a quick look at the racing form. A horse named Jacket was running in the fourth at Newmarket. The entire cast put their money on his nose. Jacket romped home, paying four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Polterjacket | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...Latin, has a spontaneity seldom seen even in plays whose medium is English--a tribute to Messrs. Maurice Snowden and Robert Brooks for their direction of a theater-piece that offers such obstacles to "sophisticated" tastes. Language difficulties are reduced to a minimum, and the obvious enthusiasm of the cast--which sometimes, but infrequently, amounts to overplaying--carries the play along when exact meaning may be in doubt. A sense of timing, so important to the success of any farce, seems to be well nigh perfect, so that situations are always clear though subtleties be lost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Miles Gloriosus | 5/7/1949 | See Source »

...next door. He is tricked into releasing her, and receives a beating and almost a fate worse than death--from his standpoint--for his pains in chasing the second woman. It's not too difficult a plot, and its possibilities for humor are made the most of by the cast...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Miles Gloriosus | 5/7/1949 | See Source »

Total vote for the College was 2229. Eliot House cast the most ballots and Kirkland House the least...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 2229 Vote in Elections for Council Posts | 5/6/1949 | See Source »

...Farrand is always light, and gay, as "it" should be. Miss Farrand is wise and nimble, and keeps within her character except one time when she briefly impersonated the goddess Ceres. Her Ariel is as pleasant as her zephyr-like voice. Ferdinand and Miranda, the ideal lovers, are ideally cast and suitably played by Miles Morgan and Naomi Raphaelson. Miss Raphaelson is particularly fetching, though her voice does not carry as it should, mainly through her voice does not carry as it should, mainly through her own weak projection. The Gonzale of Donald Stevens was well done...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: The Playgoer | 5/6/1949 | See Source »

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