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Russell plays Ruth, the older and more practical of the two Sherwood sisters from Ohio, and Blair is the man-snaring sister Eileen, whose Hellenic qualities form the nucleus of a pell-mell plot that seldom leaves the disorderly Greenwich Village apartment. Ruth tries for writing fame, while Eileen makes a few half-hearted attempts to break into Gotham theatrical circles. Their efforts meet every grotesque obstacle known to the skillful playwright. Mashers wander through their flat at all times of the day and night, blasts from a new subway running underneath shatter their sleep, drunks peer at them through...
...ordeal of Robert Sherwood began last week. The tall, thin, solemn playwright (Reunion in Vienna, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, etc.) made his first request to Congress for money ($26,000,000) to carry on the foreign propaganda work of his Overseas Branch of the Office of War Information. Members of the House appropriations subcommittee wanted to know what had been accomplished with the money (from the President's emergency fund) he had spent...
Before Pearl Harbor Sherwood began to assemble his branch under the auspices of the Coordinator of Information, Colonel William J. ("Wild Bill") Dorfovan. Last June the organization was transferred in toto to Elmer Davis' OWI. Now swollen to 1,800 employes, it has a high command in Washington, a sprawling operations unit in Manhattan, another in San Francisco and 18 outposts throughout the world. Its province is all the world outside of the continental U.S. and Latin America...
...Whether this amateur excursion into the new field of psychological warfare had done the U.S. much good, no one, including Bob Sherwood, can say. His failure to let Indians know how the U.S. felt about their differences with the British was reverse propaganda because silence forces India to assume that the U.S. is with Britain in the matter. Until the U.S. Government can make up its mind about India, Sherwood will be mute...
Whatever Congress may think of the U.S.'s maiden propaganda effort, Sherwood can point to the Nazi opinion of the importance of propaganda in the middle of a war. One 200-kw. short-wave transmitter (our largest: 100 kw.) is already on the air, and the Germans are reported to be building 19 more...