Word: sherwood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Playwright-Biographer Robert Emmet (Roosevelt and Hopkins) Sherwood told the New York Times Magazine how he had found, among the newly opened archives of his old friend Franklin Delano Roosevelt, some unpublished correspondence between F.D.R. and the late William Allen White, philosopher-publisher of Emporia, Kans. One of the letters, which had contained a snapshot of F.D.R. in one of his favorite seersucker suits, began "Dear Bill: Here is the seersucker picture, duly inscribed by the sucker to the seer...
...rest of the material is poor to middling. Robert Sherwood's "The World of the Blind" is, briefly and completely, and American-soldier story. henry Fletcher ("Hurry to Get there") is in the great tradition of high-school literary magazines right down to the last "yeah" of his criminal escape story. I offer this quote "His eyes followed her without moving his head as a man watches an art trying to crawl out of a glass." As for James Chance's "Home is the Sailor," suffice it to say that a combination of James M. Cain ("Mark lit another Camel...
When the Messrs. Berlin, Hart and Sherwood get their heads together on a musical, you'd expect the result to be the highlight of the season. Their collaboration on "Miss Liberty," however, has produced only a better-than-average shown and thus is disappointing. None of Irving Berlin's tunes have the "whistle-appeal" that characterized the music from most of his earlier efforts. The show's lone sentimental number, "Homework," seems like a rehash of any of the drowsky tunes from the Thirties; its lyrics center around a strained similarity between the words "housework" and "homework." "Let's Take...
...flaw in Sherwood's plot is that there are two heroines and only one hero. Horace Miller, a young photographer with James G. Bennett's New York Herald in 1885, is the object of affection for both Maisie Dell, a lady-reporter from the Police Gazette, and Miss Liberty herself. By all the traditions of American musical drama, Maisie should be the winner. She waits faithfully in New York while Horace tracks Miss Liberty down in Paris, she talks Bennett into sending money to Horace, she sings "Homework" with tears in her eyes. But somehow the show's namesake wins...
...Statue of Liberty came into being is potentially a good one, but the brains behind "Miss Liberty" have worked it out according to a rather dull formula. The show lacks the dramatic and musical sparkle which imprints a great musical in the audience's memory. The Berlin, Hart, Sherwood combine has chosen to use the formula in place of any ingenuity, and the result is mediocrity...