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...Manhattan last week Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt went to the theatre two nights in succession. Of Sing Out the News, Harold Rome's pro-Roosevelt revue, she remarked: "It is rather kind to certain prominent political figures." At Lightnin' Playgoer Roosevelt went behind the scenes, congratulated Fred Stone, who plays the leading role. Grinned Actor Stone: "Thank you, dear...
...Lightnin' (by Winchell Smith & Frank Bacon; produced by John Golden). A sentimental, middle-aged first-night audience, typified by former Governor Alfred E. Smith, last week greeted Lightnin' in revival. Opening originally in 1918, Lightnin' ran 1291 performances, setting a Broadway record since topped only by Abie's Irish Rose (2,532 performances). Tobacco Road (2,050). Experienced theatregoers worried little whether Lightnin' would date, knowing that it already dated when first written. For old as folk drama is the tale of warm-hearted Lightnin' Bill Jones, who loafs as chronically...
...Lightnin', wave after wave of purest hokum sweeps across the stage, but so candidly that nobody minds. Famed Hoofer Fred Stone (Montgomery & Stone) proved himself a winning character actor, brought to the title role made famous by Frank Bacon if not the same homely vigor, a sly and childlike charm. Lightnin', as Actor Stone-borrowing an old line of his-remarked in his curtain speech, is a play "to which children can safely bring their parents...
Calm, blue-eyed Playwright Clifford Henshaw Goldsmith is 38, was born in East Aurora, N. Y. where his shirts hung on the same clothesline as Roycrofter Elbert Hubbard's, now lives in a secluded farmhouse near Paoli, Pa. After a tiny role in Lightnin' and a start in cinema cut short when he tumbled down some false stairs and upset three cameras. Goldsmith joined a chautauqua. found himself while pinch-hitting for a humorous health lecturer, became a health lecturer on his own, talked on nutrition before hundreds of high schools. He pieced What a Life together...
Whatever Tobacco Road has, it is something other than the sentimentality of Abie's Irish Rose, or of Lightnin' (1,291 performances). It is physically and verbally as dirty as any play U. S. playgoers have seen. In 13 cities, from Albuquerque, N. Mex. to Boston, Mass., its producers have had to pay lawyers to fight local censorship. In Chicago, where a brief filed in the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals called the play "a garbage pail of indecent dialogue and degenerate exhibitionism," legal defense cost nearly $75,000. As advertising it was cheap...