Word: cast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more meaningful than the casualties. Theoreticians of the movies in 1929, pondering the box office of Broadway Melody and wondering if the talkies were here to stay, could not have believed that 1938-39 would see the movies' greatest success-not a musical with an all-star cast, but an animated cartoon based on a German fairy tale, Snow White, in which dwarfs, gentle beasts, magic, and witchcraft were combined for the pleasure of children. Still less could they have visualized Pinocchio (see cut, p. 33) which promised to be more successful. No prophet of 1929, peering into...
...surprise, was grave. He wanted their opinions, he said, as to whether he should make public the message he had received. He told them what it was. The Secretaries were variously shocked, disgusted, amused. They split, 5-to-5, on whether to make the information public. The President thereupon cast his own deciding vote, told them he had made up his mind: he would tell the people. Later in the day newspapermen were called in and given a bulletin...
...slowness of his characterization also reflected itself in his direction of the production. With an expert cast, this pervasive breathlessness could have penetrated the audience. But unfortunately the cast did not have the capabilities to carry off such a difficult technique of direction. Perhaps if the pacing had been quickened, the inadequacies of the supporting cast could have been smoothed over by the force of the play. But as it was, the pace which could have been tremendously effective only served to show up the cast. Erford Gage was, of course, the exception. Another exception might be made of Alice...
...demonstration of tolerance as a philosophy of life. His portrayal is of a homely lawyer who patterns his ideals after those of Lincoln. In fact, a bust of Lincoln reigns over his office desk. None of the acting in the picture is exceptional, and none of the parts are cast perfectly, but all in all, the picture gives the audience a gratifying experience of having gotten something off its chest vicariously, which might never be said in actual life...
Displacing from Tallins, reporting that Red Army forces crossed the frontier from the cast at nightfall said that the 25,000 troops would be installed on Estonian soil on a permanent basis...