Word: casting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...seven unpronounceable Gothic towers of Boston College and the supporting backfield cast is in for an artistic pasting from Tulane's Green Wave in New Orleans this afternoon. The CRIMSON's exclusive correspondent covering the game, the "Southern Sage," wires that several B. C. stars are stricken with colic and rickets. Tulane 27 Boston College 6 Boston University 21 Norwich 0 Bowdoin 13 Tufts 0 Vermont 6 Northeastern 0 Holy Cross 30 Providence 0 Brown 13 Wesleyan 0 Williams 7 Middlebury 0 Rhode Island 10 Maine 0 Bates 20 American I. C. 0 Michigan 13 California 7 Minnesota 14 Washington...
...left hand side of the theatre Thursday night, George Kaufman must have been puzzled as to what ailed his latest production. He and Moss Hart acquired an A-1 cast for their play; John Root's setting was flawless; the audience was willing, nay, anxious to be amused; and yet the play failed to click. "George Washington Slept Here" has none of the zip and sparkle of its predecessor, "The Man Who Came to Dinner," which opened here in Boston exactly 365 days before. Both are Kaufman-Hart comedies, but there unfortunately the resemblance ends--last year the two authors...
After one of Cambridge's bitterest political rows in recent history, Plan E was rejected in a 1933 referendum by the slim margin of 1,767 votes out of the 46,292 votes cast...
...totalitarian force, front-rank scientists and philosophers gathered last week for an epoch-making three-day conference with outstanding churchmen-Protestants, Catholics, Jews. The place: Manhattan's Jewish Theological Seminary. The purpose: to unify the thought of democracy, make it a united spiritual and intellectual force. The cast: seven Nobel laureates, a dozen college presidents, a host of philosophers, scientists, teachers, theologians. Altogether, over 600 representatives from 165 institutions attended, made a gallant effort to piece together the tree of knowledge which for more than a century men had busily sawed into separate branches...
...sense of social responsibility rare in the experience of economic classes who possess such tremendous power." The frustration by industry of New Deal efforts toward recovery, and indeed the very conditions of profiteering and speculation which contributed to the depression that in turn gave rise to the New Deal, cast doubt on the validity of this assertion. Even more recent is the refusal of American businessmen to cooperate with the defense program until taxes have been adjusted to suit them, while Henry Ford's attitude in the matter of airplane contracts was hardly worthy of the designations "democratic cooperation...