Word: reed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Petticoat Fever (by Mark Reed; Alfred de Liagre Jr. & Richard Aldrich, producers) starts its merry nonsense when a rising curtain discloses handsome silver-voiced Dennis King (Richard of Bordeaux) lying on a couch in a Labrador radio station talking to his Eskimo handyman (Chinese Peter Goo Chong). Actor King impersonates Dascom Dinsmore, an errant remittance man, who has not seen a pretty woman in the two years he has been in Labrador. He is irritably contemplating the rigors of another long winter without female society when his shanty suddenly takes on the atmosphere of a Long Island week-end house...
...handsome form. With a full cast of skilled performers the play blossoms forth in all its noble, rib-tickling splendor, a truly hilarious bit of eighteenth century Americana. Backed by a variety of well designed stage settings the drama runs its solid simple course. The handsome Yale collegian (Robert Reed) meets the fair maiden and before the first act is out they have settled down in the pretty (but mortgaged) cottage and have had their first child, an amazing infant who has done no mean growing in her first four summers (played with delicate tenderness and piping falsetto by Robert...
Dennis King's excellence as the swaggering handsome baritone here of musical romance a la Vagabond King is well accepted, and now in Mark Reed's "Petticoat Fever," he reveals an unsuspected talent for light comedy. The play itself is a hilariously funny romantic farce which should place a strong bid for the title of this season's comedy number...
Woven into the fabric of complex New York City is the scarlet thread of bastardy which Dr. Ruth Reed of Indiana University has been unraveling for three years. Last week she reached a point where she could tell the metropolis just what sort of women bear bastards...
...Miss Reed discovered one unmarried mother who was only 11 years old and a 14-year-old girl who had two fatherless babies The number of women who had illegitimate children after they were 40 was negligible. When Miss Reed realized that only 1% of the mothers were normal school graduates and only 2% were college graduates, she hastened to denounce "a belief prevalent among some social agencies, that unmarried mothers now come largely from the better educated classes...