Word: herendeen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Come Home to Roost," an American Comedy by Fred Herendeen, is principally another way for the playgoer to fritter away an evening until the season settles down to being serious. In spite of the resuscitation of some very old jokes, the evening will be pleasantly enough spent, with an almost perpetual grin occasionally erupting into a laugh. But that's about all to expect...
...husband because he never took her to the movies, but instead made very disagreeable stinks with his chemicals. She goes back to him when she learns that he is through with the smelly part of his work, and is about to go to France to make perfume. Perhaps Mr. Herendeen has his tongue in his cheek about that daughter, but he is dead serious about the next one. Her troubles are not chemical, but biological. She couldn't give her husband a baby, so decided to give him a chance with somebody else. His not wanting that chance didn...
...King's Horses (book & lyrics by Frederick Herendeen; music by Edward A. Horan; Harry L. Cort and Charles H. Abramson, producers). For this season's few musical shows in Manhattan† this studiously unoriginal little opus afforded company rather than competition. The story is labeled: "A Royal Escapade in a Little European Kingdom. . . . Let Us Call It Langenstein." The music is cacophonous except for "I Found a Song" which decorative Nancy McCord and spry little Guy Robertson spend most of their time singing. For humor Librettist Herendeen has relied heavily on the outlandish sound of U. S. slang...
...Frederick Herendeen; Charles H. Abramson and Jess Smith, producers). In a lonely house in Florida's Everglades a demented professor (William Ingersoll) grows a gigantic spider. He is assisted by a Japanese butler (Harold deBecker) who wants the formula to grow big Japanese. Into this setting presently appear all the characters requisite for mystery melodrama: two escaped murderers, two pursuing officers, a golden-hearted lad of the swamps who doubts his fitness to marry the professor's niece because his father "has snake's blood in his veins," a reporter for the Associated Press, an eloquent thunderstorm...
Long before the spider has been assassinated with a gas bomb the mystery of The Web has been punctured by several large, jagged holes and the cast, following pointed suggestions from the audience, has decided to make the rest as funny as possible. As Playwright Herendeen probably told himself when he wrote it, there is no reason why The Web should not do well as a cinema...