Word: sherwoods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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HERE are two contemporary plays by comparatively young and successful dramatists. Mr. Sherwood has followed the earlier success of "The Road to Rome" with "Waterloo Bridge", which has had a long and profitable run this past winter in New York. Mr. Howard is known best as the author of "The Silver Cord", and of "Ned McCobb's Daughter", one of the Theatre Guild successes. "Half Gods," his last play, had a brief life on an unsympathetic Broadway...
...this land of the free and home of the brave. Some will point, of course, to Eugene O'Neill as undisputably superior to either of the gentlement here considered, but then, I can point to others (we'll not bother to name them) who are vastly inferior to Messrs Sherwood and Howard. In short, I submit that these two playwrights may be expected to display the faults and merits (if any) characteristic of the writing that is being done for the stage today...
Take first, for example, Mr. Sherwood's "Waterloo Bridge". It is a story about an American streetwalker stranded, pending certain Continental hostilities, in London, and a nice doughboy on leave from the Front. The play is obviously contemporary, because it is about War and a tart. Of course, just as our modern stage ladies always turn out in the course of the play to be tarts, so this tart in the last act becomes a lady. (You must pardon the over-use of the word "tart" in this review, but modern literature has made "lady" or even "woman" seem...
...disguised foresters hammer, pantomime, and whistle with considerable versatility and enthusiasm. Fully half of the musical numbers are sung by the full company, and so reach a volume befitting the atmosphere of the outlaw group. Scenery, costumes, the Morris Dance in the first act, the later settings in Sherwood Forest and in the courtyard at Nottingham, are all attractive and pleasantly recall the Merrie England of the ballad. Robin Hood The Cast Sudworth Frazier Sheriff of Nottingham William Danforth Sir Guy Gisborne John Cherry Little John Greek Evans Will Scarlet Charles Galagher Friar Tuck William White Allan-a-Dale Lorna...
...lover rather than pollute him, that he will ultimately learn the truth and ignore it, that she will then promise to be a good girl until he returns from the wars with a marriage license. The playwright who has done nothing to disturb these expectations is Robert Emmet Sherwood, usually devoted not to emotional ferments but to the risabilities (The Road to Rome, The Queen's Husband). The very modest measure of success that he achieves with this sentimentally serious play is largely due to June Walker and to Glenn Hunter, still boyishly telescoping his words. Between them these...