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...past 18 years, he began playing it last week on Broadway. To Broadway, which found five years long enough for Oklahoma!, those 18 years seemed either a miracle or a misprint. Not that the idea of the play-which inverts a copybook moral-isn't amusing enough. Henry Dewlip begins as a rakish, well-adjusted bachelor, is misled into sowing his tame oats, and then happily restored to rakishness...
...What this country, needs, along with a good five cent dollar, is a real hearty laugh," declared Henry Hull, who plays the role of Henry Dewlip in "Spring-time for Henry," in a CRIMSON interview between the acts at the Wilbur Theatre last night. "I enjoy my part in this play immensely because the production is a kind of tonic that America needs. Our country has fallen into a state of morbid hysteria over the depression that we must overcome. The fun never flags in this skit, and the larger the number of Americans who can learn to laugh whole...
...Dewlip's conversion from excessive drinking, love-making, and idling, by his demure, straight-laced stenographer is made even more ludicrous when by chance she reveals to the smitten Henry that she has murdered her husband, for having his mistresses for tea, a custom which would eventually cause drastic changes in the demand and supply of tea in France. Finally, to the gratification of Dewlip's best friend, Jelliwell, he goes back to an amicable relationship with Mrs. Jelliwell, for which he can scarcely be blamed, while the stenographer and Mr. Jelliwell, who have been misinforming each other, decide they...
Springtime for Henry. Henry Dewlip (Leslie Banks) was as charming and entertaining a person as you would hope to meet. He drank too much, slept too little, made ardent love to his best friend's wife. That was before he hired wide-eyed Miss Smith (Helen Chandler) for his secretary. After that he quit tippling, quit gambling, went to bed early and infinitely bored everyone he knew. Finally he was reclaimed, but not before it developed that Miss Smith had shot her French husband?"poor dear"?because he simply could not break himself of the habit of bringing...
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