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...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...
...leaving their viewers satisfied, if not stimulated. Ideally, says Quinn, "we try to find a story of fairly simple people in an extraordinarily emotional situation." But the ideal specifications cannot always be met. Last week's show, The Queen's Husband, written by Robert Emmet Sherwood in 1928, told how a constitutional monarch outwitted a domineering wife and a dictatorial prime minister by uniting with a Communist-Labor coalition. Kraft's version emerged as pure Graustark, with not a Communist in sight...
...Kramer in Ruth Suckow's Kramer Girls'), but they invariably escaped their fate by marrying or becoming secretaries before it was too late. The rest were like Thomas Wolfe's teacher in Look Homeward, Angel ("a gaunt red-faced spinster, with fierce glaring eyes"), or like Sherwood Anderson's frustrated Kate Swift, "silent, cold, and stern...
...Kinnan Rawlings he wrote, "I can understand your feeling anxious, because a good writer always does, and ought to." Perkins became father confessor, literary adviser, financial agent and friend to his struggling writers. He negotiated with Tom Wolfe's dunning creditors while Wolfe was in Europe, he gentled Sherwood Anderson when Anderson was on his last literary legs, and he reassured a nervous Hemingway who hovered over his shoulder as Perkins read the last third of For Whom the Bell Tolls...