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...Queen's Husband. As diarist of an unidentified king, discovered last week acting oddly upon the stage of a Manhattan theatre, Robert Emmet Sherwood develops ramifications. He sets up a satire on royalty, gilds it with hot romance and stripes the second act with melodrama. One hears an undertone of Bolshevism and unmistakable echoes of the derision that dogged Queen Marie across our country. Mr. Sherwood dares destroy any trace of consistency by marrying off his Princess to her plumber's son at the end with as glossy a happy ending as ever was pasted on the movies which...
...Road to Rome", has, somewhat metaphorically speaking, a fork in it. Now that we have actually seen the play, it has become clear that Mr. Sherwood, the author of the present production at the Wilbur, had from the motive of his story two opportunities before him. Either he might indulge himself in purely" semi-farcical satire on modern conditions or he might on the other hand write a truly great tragedy. He seems to have tried to do both, and succeeded in doing each one only by half...
...Most men think themselves too handsome ever to become successful stage actors," asserted Jane Cowl, star of "The Road to Rome," by R. E. Sherwood '17, last night to a CRIMSON reporter as she sat in her dressing rom dressed as Amytis, her character in the play...
...give Robert Emmet Sherwood...
Robert Emmet Sherwood's feet fill size 13 shoes. He is editor and cinema critic of Life, and author of The Road to Rome, highly successful comedy...