Word: casts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Easy Victory. When the bell rang last week, Perlstein swarmed all over the opposition, won an easy knockout. His slate of directors polled 56% of the votes cast. After the count, the vanquished did not even get the chance to speak; when David Pabst tried to make a statement for the record, Perlstein cut him off-in the interest, he explained, of a brief meeting...
Linked with other finds at Ife (where, the Yoruba tribe believes, all creation began), the bronzes have opened a new chapter in the history of African cultures. The seven pieces, all told, believed to have been cast in the 13th or 14th century, are among Africa's finest. They add important new evidence of an ancient Negro culture of amazing sophistication. Last week while the pieces were on their way to England for showings, experts continued to dig and sift the soil at Ife in search of more clues to the past...
Despite its glittering cast and artier-than-thou approach, the show now and again came slowly out of the tube. Not without lively spots (notably a duet of Baby, It's Cold Outside, incongruously teaming Rock Hudson and Mae West, and a song-and-dance routine by Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas), it was better organized than in recent years, but still prone to flat jokes and awkward entrances and exits. All the same, with such old-guard purists as Clark Gable, John Wayne and Gary Grant helping the cause of motion pictures, Producer Jerry Wald figured that...
...gives him the old cold cream. "I reverence the things you've done in the theater, Mr. Easton ... I read La Dame Souriante in French, and I admire your courage in doing it." Easton (edging away): "I'm sorry. Miss Lovelace, but we are fully cast." But a minute later she bursts into his office to say, "Thank you for taking such a personal interest," and while she's at it, she takes time to bestow her condescension on a famed actress (Joan Greenwood) who happens to be there. The actress, who does not seem to appreciate...
...Jephta saves the tribe that cast him out is one of the most famous tales in the Book of Judges. Jephta's sacrifice of his beloved daughter fascinated poets and artists as much as its Greek equivalent-Agamemnon's sacrifice of his daughter Iphigenia at Aulis. Like Author Fast's Moses, Author Feuchtwanger's book falls far short of the story's greatest possibilities, but it is told competently and plausibly in the simple, direct language of a veteran historical novelist (Jew Suss, Josephus). Both books reflect the intelligent spirit of the text that Author...