Word: casting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...colds and indigestion, the wisecracks all laughed at, the arguments all heard before, they were in no mood for history. If they were halfway through one of the greatest political stories in the long record of the U. S., they did not want to hear about it, would have cast a startled eye at any one of their number who had been sophomoric enough...
...play like Messrs. Lindsay and Crouse's adaptation which does not pretend to dramatic intensity or profundity, the burden of success necessarily lies upon the direction and a cast able to take full advantage of the innumerable laugh-provoking situations. Oscar Serlin provides both. Bretaigne Windust has captained the cast to a rollicking march that rarely tires. He commands a company that is cut to the most exacting measures...
Heading the list of factors-for-the-good is the cast. Seldom have audiences witnessed a more perfect chronic sneer than that of Laurence Olivier; seldom a more perfect break-down that the first proposal scene. Greer Garson is the second edition of Myrna Loy,--and the second edition can act. Honorable mention goes to Mary Boland, whose past career has been a rehearsal for the part of Mrs. Bennett, and Melville Cooper, whose depiction of stuffed shirts is rapidly approaching...
...cast 62 votes for medicine, 49 for law, 31 for teaching, and 27 for business. Chemical research and engineering tied for fifth place with 18 ballots each, and journalism ran neck-and-neck with science, both of which were favored with 12 votes...
...philosopher, and friend, Mr. Kane is little short of ideal. Then there is Hiram Sherman, portly and bouncing, who raises his pleasant voice all through the evening as the town's new minister. It would almost seem that Ervine wrote the part for him also. The rest of the cast, Helen Trenholme as Agnes Boyd, William Post, Jr. as John Haslett, Eda Heinemann and Grace Mills, all fit their parts...