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...Whose name was used by his World War II Navy shipmate, the late Thomas Heggen, as the title for his famed Mr. Roberts...
Died. Thomas O. Heggen, 29, Iowa-born Navy veteran who turned his wartime experience in the Pacific into the bestselling (more than 850,000 copies) novel Mister Roberts, collaborated with Joshua (South Pacific) Logan to turn it into a Broadway smash hit; by drowning in his bathtub after taking sleeping pills; in Manhattan...
...Tonight on Broadway (Tues. 7 p.m., CBS Television), the first of a series of televiews of Broadway hits. Like many a try out performance, the show needed tightening and pruning. It ran ten minutes overtime, poked around too long backstage. There were too many interviews (with Author Thomas Heggen, Producer Leland Hayward, Henry Fonda and the cast), too little of Mister Roberts. "It's really much better when you see it," commented a woman televiewer. Television and Broadway agreed, hoped that this week's try (at The Heiress) would be better...
...Roberts (adapted by Thomas Heggen & Joshua Logan from Mr. Heggen's novel; produced by Leland Hayward) was a smash hit (advance sale: $400,000) weeks before it arrived on Broadway. Cased out of town, it was rumored to be out of this world. Happily, it is one of the better things in it: a good show superlatively produced; a rowdy, romantic, sometimes rather touching, sometimes uproariously funny wartime chronicle...
...Author Heggen brought his successful short novel to Logan last August, after deciding that he didn't like his own stage version. For three months they hacked away at it together. Says Logan: "Nothing could stop it. It got up on its two feet and walked by itself." More accurately, 6 ft.-1 in., 200-lb. Josh Logan shoved the play into shape...