Word: casts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with wrath as they darted in at him: Isserman with his soft bay; Gladstein with his air of righteous plausibility turning to outraged innocence when the judge caught him laying a legal trap; Harry Sacher, the little man with the bull voice, chivying the Court, then smiling impishly, eyes cast down, while the judge mildly upbraided him; Dennis rushing in occasionally to make a choked, impassioned speech...
...mortar binding the West together set with the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) and the hopeful anniversary of Marshall aid in Europe (see below), Russia cast about for a suitably truculent counter move...
...good enough, but he saved four. A few years ago, the Metropolitan turned down his favorite, Troubled Island, with a libretto by Negro Poet Langston Hughes, because it called for something the Met couldn't assemble from its own roster-a large number of Negroes among the supporting cast. Says Still: "I have been patient; others would have given up, but I have exercised an enormous amount of determination...
...operetta than the soup bone of opera. With a little seasoning here & there, some listeners thought, it could even be made into a Broadway hit. Composer Still's first-night audience liked it fine, anyhow. Exultant, happy, and even more determined after taking six curtain calls with the cast, Still said he planned to keep on trying to write grand opera. Said he: "You don't realize your mistakes until they stare you in the face. I discovered my weak points...
...dressing quarters, were The Masquers of Amherst College, alma mater of the library's late founder, Oil Millionaire Henry Clay Folger. As a London director of 1600 would have it, they performed without sets, in frilly Elizabethan costumes instead of Roman togas. One non-authentic touch: girls were cast in the two feminine roles. The program explained: "We have somehow lost the knack of training juveniles to play female parts...