Word: berney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sally (music by Jerome Kern; lyrics by P. G. Wodehouse and Clifford Grey; book by Guy Bolton; produced by Hunt Stromberg Jr. and William Berney) constitutes almost as aromatic a memory of the Ziegfeld era as the Follies themselves. Anyone seeing it on Broadway last week must have guessed, if he did not know, that it had once been a great hit (1920-35). But though Sally still has an air, it shows...
Weird is the word. The Smoky Mountain legend of Barbara Allen and her witch-boy lover in itself is strange and eerie. Made into a "legend with music" by Howard Richardson and William Berney, strikingly performed, and skillfully produced, the tale becomes an unusually dramatic theatrical experience...
Dark of the Moon (by Howard Richardson & William Berney; produced by the Messrs. Shubert) laudably strays off the beaten track, but lucklessly tarries too long in the tall grass...
...make the success complete, a virtually unknown cast of young hopefuls executes with competence and enthusiasm the work of young writers, Howard Richardson and William Berney, a young composer, Walter Hendl, and young directorial talent. Carol Stone looks delightfully untamed; Richard Hart darts through his witchery with fiery grace and makes the play's seriousness very credibly unaffected...