Word: roles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This is not true. "The Serfs of St. Gregory," one dozen lay Catholics, were not silenced. We will not even be quiet until his Excellency forsakes his role of strikebreaker...
...Alfred de Liagre Jr.-were planning separate swing productions of The Mikado on Broadway. When the Federal Theatre decided to bring its own production East, de Liagre bowed himself out, but Todd, charging WPA with obstructing private enterprise, accelerated his plans, engaged Hoofer Bill Robinson for the title role. Promptly the Federal Theatre closed its show in Chicago, last week opened it-three weeks ahead of Todd's-in Manhattan...
...profits. It was a sad mistake for the producers to import Mr. Marshall from the dignity of his Paris apartment to the wild charms of music-hall life; also sad is the change forced on Bert Lahr, who has been transported from his usual garden of foolery to the role of Zaza's faithful partner. Even the erratic foibles of Helen Westley fail to inject a real sparkle into the picture. With a more personable male lead, and a plot just a bit more complicated than its two-sided triangle, "Zaza" might have provided real film relish...
...hapless Crimson basketball forces enter a game in which they cannot be classed as underdogs when they entertain Yale in the Indoor Athletic Building tonight. As a matter of fact, with the advantage of playing in their own back yard, Coach Fesler's cagers rate the favorite's role against Coach Loeffler's erratic quintet...
Fesler is pinning his hopes on Charley Lutz and Sam White in the front court, Homer Peabody at center, and Captain Lupe Lupien and Fred Heckel in the back court. Substitute Chet Legg is liable to see quite a bit of action in a reserve role and may even start because of the ten points he tossed in against the Lions in the losing battle the Feslermen waged in New York Wednesday night...