Word: sherwoods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This is New York. There is an old saying that "New York is a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't live there if you gave me the place." Robert E. Sherwood, once an editor of Life, having written The Road to Rome and Waterloo Bridge, has turned his attention to this saw and has evidently decided to make a rebuttal. Producer Arthur Hopkins has selected a creditable cast to present Mr. Sherwood's side of the question. There is charming, blonde Lois Moran, recently of the audible cinema. Her legitimate stage technique is somewhat adolescent...
Playwright Sherwood's show begins when Miss Moran's father, a South Dakota Senator, comes to New York. Both he and his wife are definitely opposed to the city, advocate its secession from the union. No less are they opposed to their daughter's marrying Mr. Kerr, a Manhattan socialite whose past is rife with youthful follies. Then Miss Moran attempts to extricate her fiance from the claims of his mercenary mistress (Miss Dale). It is about this time (Act II) that the play begins to take life. At the paramour's apartment an impromptu fiesta...
Playwright Sherwood ultimately makes a very good case for New York. His play drags a bit in spots, but is commendable...
...Fernando, Calif., Theodore G. Sherwood, 86, Civil War veteran, was sentenced to jail for two days because he refused to buy a license to have a bathtub in his home...
...Author. Margaret Mead, 28, daughter of Economics Professor Edward Sherwood Mead (University of Pennsylvania), wife of British Anthropologist Reo Fortune, is Assistant Curator of the American Museum of Natural History. Between voyages of anthropological discovery she lives in Manhattan. She has no children...