Word: harriet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only one-The Eve of St. Mark-dealt seriously with the war; only three others-The Patriots, Harriet and Tomorrow the World-dealt seriously with anything. Entertainment held the field. Thornton Wilder's cockeyed The Skin of Our Teeth started ten thousand arguments, sold a quarter of a million seats and won the Pulitzer Prize. Oklahoma!, musicomedy's least orthodox offering in years, was also its most charming and successful. As Rosalinda, Johann Strauss's 6g-year-old, waltz-drenched Die Fledermaus became a surprise smash...
Spring. Eleven-year-old Richard Miller of Pittsburgh ran away from home to see some ball games, turned up in Manhattan prepared to watch the Dodgers; ready for any emergency, he carried a bat, two baseballs, two catcher's mitts, two fielder's gloves. Billy Sykes and Harriet Wilkinson, both ten and barefoot, were taken into custody 60 miles from their Los Angeles homes by a deputy sheriff, who thus foiled their third attempted elopement...
...Harriet (by Florence Ryerson & Colin Clements; produced by Gilbert Miller) brings history and Helen Hayes (Caesar and Cleopatra, Mary of Scotland, Victoria Regina) together again. The story of Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-96), from her marriage at 25 till the middle of the Civil War, Harriet is anything but a militant play, is only by fits & starts a serious one. It is more concerned with crinolines than crusaders. Perhaps it had to be. For while Harriet Beecher Stowe was lifted to the heights with Uncle Tom's Cabin, during most of her life she was bogged down in family...
...from his. There were six other preacher brothers, a whalebone-and-woman's rights sister Catherine, an empty-pursed absent-minded professor of a husband, a batch of noisy kids. Uncle Tom, according to the play, got written with the house all Topsy-turvy. In the midst of Harriet's fame, cooks fired up and gave notice, a son got wounded in the war his mother helped create, twin daughters set their hearts on the same young man and a third daughter...
...lighter side of Harriet is sometimes lifelike, sometimes merely Life With Fatherlike. Its serious moments-the capture of a fugitive slave in the Stowe parlor; Harriet delivering a big, meant-to-be-timely speech-are poorly contrived, patly inserted. But Actress Hayes, acting with her usual skill, aging with her usual art, creates, if not a great and rounded woman, a bustling housewife who is also sore beset...