Word: casting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morning sun fell on Manhattan's Foley Square, but the room in the skyscraper courthouse was cast in majestic gloom. The babbling of the spectators in the pewlike benches had stopped. Wary-eyed deputy marshals, their numbers reinforced, had ranged themselves around the crowded room, against its marble walls. Eleven bosses of the Communist Party, on trial for conspiring to teach and advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. Government, now at the hour of reckoning, sat inside the rail behind their five lawyers. U.S. Attorney John F. X. McGohey, their unsmiling antagonist, rested his grey head...
...entirely through with the case yet. He still had to cast his melancholy eyes over briefs, listen to motions and arguments, hand out the sentences...
Final tabulations on the first Moors Hall House Committee elections were announced last night. With 104 votes cast in the two day balloting, the following officers were chosen: president, Janot Stewart '50; vice-president, Nina Emerson '50; head proctor, Eleanor Larsen '50; social chairman, Mary Jean Hazzard '50; secretary-treasurer, Mariaune Piazza '50; librarian, Helen Clark '51; fire captain, Betty Bagby '52; freshman representative, Anne Reynolds...
...present production, Peter Temple as the schoolmaster, Semyon, Donald Stevens as Sorin, and Jeanne Tufts as Polina are cases in point. Bryant Haliday as Konstantin, shows much improvement over his past tendency toward staginess and oratory and gives his best performance to date. Jan Farrand is ill-cast as the faded actress, Madame Arkadina. Despite all the trickery of the theater, Miss Farrand cannot look faded. And as the physical appearance of the actress playing the role is unusually important, Miss Farrand tries to compensate for her 'shortcoming' by working doubly hard to convey the pathetic shallowness of the character...
...easy arguments for giving aid to Tito. We are told it will show anti-Russian (nationalist) groups in other Iron Curtain countries that the U. S. is willing to be friends, to play the kindly uncle to Stalin's stern father. This may or may not help these countries cast off Russian control, but it is a step in the right direction-we may hope for eventual Russian departure from the area...