Word: sherwood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sherwood and Sears...
Perhaps the best show ever put on by the Pudding was "Barnum Was Right", produced in 1920. Robert E. Sherwood '17 and Samuel P. Sears '17 wrote the music and lyrics. It was a success largely because of its straight musical comedy format instead of the usual burlesquish offering. The play was actually "good theatre" and played to enthusiastic audiences in New York and Philadelphia...
...movie, too, is funny. It starts in a forest--not unlike Sherwood Forest--where the Black Fox--not unlike Robin Hood--is hiding out with his gang of trusty-men. Danny Kaye and Glynis Johns are trusty-men. Miss Johns is a Captain and Danny Kaye is the Prince's nurse. The Prince, who is eight months old, has been brought to the forest after Roderick, the film's usurping tyrant, has massacred the rest of the royal family. The Prince deserves the throne because he, and not Roderick, has on his bottom the royal birthmark--the Purple Pimpernel...
...College, however, has produced important figures in the theatre--like Robert E. Sherwood '17, John Mason Brown '23, Brooks Atkinson '17, and John G. Kerr '52--with essentially the same facilities as are now available to student organizations, Anderson pointed...
...Mother of Us All, there were other historically contributing factors. Gertrude S. and Virgil T. had long been thinking independently about the artistic expression of America's 19th century. They met early in the 1920's, quite naturally in Paris, where Gertrude's flock then and later included Hemingway, Sherwood Anderson, and Thornton Wilder...