Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Green Room's college cast offered a smooth, intelligent performance. If they often Jacked force, and could almost never suggest the dark corners of the Renaissance soul, they were seldom stagy, seldom obscure, spoke blank verse with distinction. Broadway might have done better, but Broadway refuses...
...cinemillions had already unanimously voted that Clark Gable must play Rhett Butler. Selznick also bowed to them when he cast Olivia de Havilland as sweetish, big-eyed, thrushlike Melanie Hamilton, Leslie Howard as smooth, anemic, intellectual Ashley Wilkes, Laura Hope Crews as futile, flustered foolish Aunt Pittypat. Two of Selznick's minor castings were inspired: 1) Thomas Mitchell as old hard-riding Gerald O'Hara, who (after his mind is gone) by sheer power of pantomime dominates the scenes in which he has almost nothing to say or do; 2) colored Cinemactress Hattie McDaniel, who comes from Kansas...
...reputation for a fast attacking and hard pressing type of wrestling. His display of ability immediately drove his opponent into a dead defense which saved him from being pinned. Ted Schoenberg characteristically tied up his opponent in four minutes, at 128, while Sophomore Ray Stone showed a steady, smooth variety of wrestling at 135, winning by a decision...
None too optimistic about this evening's game, Hodder believes that he will need considerable more practice to weld his sextet into a smooth working outfit. The Crimson has come a long way since the start of practice, and Hodder maintains that Bill Coleman's team will be hard to stop by the end of the season...
Boasting five smooth Radcliffe girls and a dress model, the cast includes many veterans of the "Cradle" production...