Word: dering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hammerstein's lyrics are as right and renovating as his book. The seductive Seguidilla becomes Dere's a Café on de Corner; the Quintet turns into Whizzin' Away Along de Track. Carmen gets a load of Joe, and her famed flirtatious Habanera becomes Dat's Love...
...Dere as an aging maiden aunt is a bit different from the sophisticated authoress she played last week, more in the vein of here three-year "Tobacco Road" part, but still good. The rest of the cast is capable, with actor-director Bob Perry playing well Dorothy Lambert handling a finicky mother part adequately, and Louise Valery making a nice finance to inventor-mechanic Richard Hart...
...social drama, the play is gentle, perhaps slightly suggestive of the Woman's Home Companion. The cast is able, with Leatrice Joy Gilbert, the guest star doing very nicely, thank you, and a pretty lass at that. Orchids go to Ann Dere, whose fine portrayal of Katherine Markham, a difficult part, is the best performance of the play...
...combination of Bill Mendrek and Dere we have little to say. They carry their scenes well, don't botch lines as Ruth Hermansen does, almost spoiling her otherwise well done job as the novel writer who sounds as though she might have written this play...
...this made-to-order audience but also to be spotted opposite (and stymie) Radio's Number One Boy Jack Benny, who attracts upwards of 11,000,000 families of listeners for NBC each week. Known as Dear Mom, the CBS show is patterned after Ed Streeter's Dere Mable letters of World War I, is sponsored by Wrigley...