Word: emmet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Playwright-Biographer Robert Emmet (Roosevelt and Hopkins) Sherwood told the New York Times Magazine how he had found, among the newly opened archives of his old friend Franklin Delano Roosevelt, some unpublished correspondence between F.D.R. and the late William Allen White, philosopher-publisher of Emporia, Kans. One of the letters, which had contained a snapshot of F.D.R. in one of his favorite seersucker suits, began "Dear Bill: Here is the seersucker picture, duly inscribed by the sucker to the seer...
...Holland aim at leaving their viewers satisfied, if not stimulated. Ideally, says Quinn, "we try to find a story of fairly simple people in an extraordinarily emotional situation." But the ideal specifications cannot always be met. Last week's show, The Queen's Husband, written by Robert Emmet Sherwood in 1928, told how a constitutional monarch outwitted a domineering wife and a dictatorial prime minister by uniting with a Communist-Labor coalition. Kraft's version emerged as pure Graustark, with not a Communist in sight...
...last night announced the following production staff for the spring show: managing director, David Bowen '51; director, William Wheeling '50; producer, Palmer Dixon '50; stage manager, Harold Stone, Jr. '53; sets, Robert S. Emmet, Jr. '52; costumes, Paul W. Etter '51; choreographer, John F. J. Keogh '52; lighting, Nancy Ryan; and publicity, Robert H. DiComes...