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...Anne of the Thousand Days yanks the ten-year-old Playwrights' Company out of a slump that had threatened to end a unique Broadway team. Last season, for the first time since it was formed by Maxwell Anderson, S. N. Behrman, Sidney Howard, Elmer Rice and Robert E. Sherwood, the partners could not dig up a play among them; Broadway wondered loudly whether the old hands had lost their grip. Now the Playwrights plan to follow Anne with four more in the current season...
...Copley, Robert E. Sherwood's "The Road to Rome" involves funny business in the field of Rome and sex. "Finian's Rainbow," at the Shubert, is a sure bet musical if you can get the seats...
...years, New Dealism was forgotten; even Harry Hopkins, according to Sherwood, was sick of "those Goddamn New Dealers." In this period the economy needed no shot in the arm. But even in 1946-48, the demise of New Dealism seemed definitely to be on the way; and it was difficult for the objective observer to understand the unpopularity of a public policy which had done so much for the masses. As we look back now, it may well be that what was interpreted as a repudiation of New Deal or Keynesian economics, upon which it was largely built...
...That F.D.R. Could Sleep. Sherwood makes it clear that there was but one unanimous choice for Supreme Commander of the invasion: George Marshall. It was F.D.R. who, first supporting Marshall, changed his mind. He then overrode Stalin and Churchill to name Eisenhower. Roosevelt explained his change of mind to Marshall : "I could not sleep at night with you out of the country." At the time, the country would undoubtedly have slept better had F.D.R. made what seemed the stronger choice...
Biographer Sherwood clearly agrees with the Yank estimate of F.D.R.: "He was the Commander in Chief, not only of our armed forces, but of our generation." It is also Sherwood's contention, and he does much to document it, that in the war years Harry Hopkins used his vast, F.D.R.-given power wisely. Later historians may question the wisdom, but they will not be able to question the power. Nor will any historian of the Roosevelt era be able to ignore this book...