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...Show (by Ruth Goodman and Augustus Goetz; produced by Jed Harris) concerns a middle-aged widower and his daughter (Frank Conroy & Constance Cummings) who run an art gallery. Attractive and sought after, the girl is indifferent to other men because she is pathologically attached to her father. The father tries to cut the cord between them; the girl holds tight...
...clever play, with some pointed dialogue and a sophisticated art-gallery air, One-Man Show is spurious drama. It puts slickness ahead of seriousness, sacrifices the characters to the plot. But Jed Harris's shrewd direction-as has often happened in the past two decades-makes the play seem better than...
...Wonder of the 1920s, lantern-jawed, shiny-haired Jed Harris (now 45) chalked up a record which probably no Broadway producer has equaled since: four successive smash hits (Broadway, Coquette, The Royal Family, The Front Page) in less than two years. At the age of 28 he had (counting road companies) seven productions on the boards at once, and an income of $40,000 a week...
Sometimes guests take even heavier punishment. Once, on the way home with Broadway Producer Jed Harris, Spyros decided to stop off at a Greek wedding in Philadelphia and do a few other errands. Before they reached Mamaroneck some 16 hours later they had driven and flown 1,000 miles. Intensely proud of anything Greek, Spyros has named his five children Daphne, 21, Diana, 18, Dionysia, 17, Spyros Jr., 19, and Plato...
Boiling mad, Oklahoma's Congressman Jed Johnson went to the President, later told newsmen that Franklin Roosevelt had promised to have a good look at the record. In a letter to the President, Jed Johnson cited a precedent for clemency...