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Despite the widest spread advance interest since "The Tempest," and despite the return of Robert E. Sherwood and Spencer Tracy after five and 15 year absences respectively. "The Rugged Path" somehow contrives to bring together every known cliche and outworn situation known to the American stage...
Using a plot adapted from a good many movies and plays, chiefly "The Searching Wind," Robert Sherwood has, as is his went, a moral for Americans. He has changed his views somewhat in the past five years. His last play, "There Shall Be No Night," praised the valiant Finns in their struggle against tyranny; "The Rugged Path snarls at business men who decry lend lease to the Soviet Union...
...SHERWOOD W. TRAVERS Boiling Field Washington...
This is a season in which great things are expected on Broadway. Robert Sherwood's "Out of Hell" opens in Providence in a few days, and Elmer Rice, Maxwell Anderson, and other honored playwrights promise big things. Tennessee Williams, newly risen through "The Glass Menagerie," is the focus of the big town's attention this week--but "You Touched Me" is no "Glass Menagerie," despite its merits...
...multilingual staff of 250 (about half British), experimenting and entangling itself in red tape. Colonel William Paley, peacetime head of CBS, was called in to set things straight. He negotiated with the BBC for equipment, promised that ABSIE would clear out 90 days after V-E day. Robert Sherwood, then OWI's overseas director, arranged the programs; he said that ABSIE would "join with the BBC in telling the truth of this war to our friends in Europe - and to our enemies...