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Other Freshmen on the committee are Norman Meyer, William W. Pinney, Frank H. Poole, William MeN. Band, and Robert B. Sherwood...
...Helworthy Hall: John M. Bullitt, of Matthews Hall: Evan Calkins of Holworthy Hall: Maxwell Kaufer, of Grays Hall: Norman Meyer, of Waltham; William W. Piuney, of Apley Court: F. Harrison Poole, of grays Hall: William McNKand, Jr., of Grays Hall: John E. Sawhill of Weld Hall, and Robert F. Sherwood, of Wiggisworth Hall...
Collaborating with Freedley, Sherwood Rollins, Jr. '41 and Camman Newberry '37, 2L, wrote the music for the play. Each of the three authors have had previous theatrical experience. Rollins wrote the music for the 1939 Hasty Pudding Show, while Newberry wrote the muisic for the Hasty Pudding productions...
...Abraham Lincoln, hero of democracy par excellence, has become an important symbol at the expense of the man himself. Great eulogies and great debunkings have been poured over his faded memory, rearing him into some abstract, semi-divine legend. In the play, "Abo Lincoln in Illinois," two men--Robert Sherwood, playwright, and Raymond Massey, actor--have striven to bring him back to life...
...haunted by a trauma of youth, heckled by a shrewish wife, driven into the White House almost against his will, yet ostensibly he is just a backwoods politician with canny horse-sense and a flair for fence-sitting. None of the rampant idealism usually attributed to Lincoln colors the Sherwood-Massey characterization, and for that reason the play might be considered derogatory, but "unemotional" seems to be a better word to describe their approach. Well polished by a year's experience on Broadway, "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" is on its way to becoming an American classic...