Word: ordering
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...American Youth Congress, the National Negro Congress, the International Workers Order...
...pretty reckless. They say "Nazi" and "Fascist" and "Ribbentrop" as easily as if they were the names of cocktails. In line with this spirit of adventure, Hollywood showed up last week with a document, a drama, a comedy, none of which pulls its punches when it mentions the new order in Europe, all of which are better for their courage...
...through Central Casting Corporation, a nonprofit, cooperative employment agency run by the Association of Motion Picture Producers. There almost 10,000 extras are registered, known by their age, sex, length of beard, type of wardrobe. When David Selznick needs a few thousand Confederate soldiers, his casting department sends an order to Central by teletype. It is given to one of the six casters who sit in a large noisy room listening to the names of the extras broadcast over a loudspeaker as they call in for work...
...seemed decidedly disappointed the day after the opening. Ordinarily, one just lets a critic's opinion lie like a sleeping dog, but in the case of "Twelfth Night," which is certainly the most significant Boston opening the fall, reinvestigation of the case of Hughes vs. Shakespeare is certainly in order...
Typical of Toby's humor is his bantering with Maria, who warns him to "confine yourself within the modest limits of order." He counters: "Confine: I'll confine myself no finer than I am. These clothes are good enough to drink in, and so be these boots too." There is certainly nothing "dated" in this joke to spoil it, but it would hardly rate in the poorest radio laugh-show. It belongs to a comic old knight, still able to raise cain, but really as antiquated and useless as the England which is giving way to new commerce...