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Part of that may stem from the play's lineal parentage. It surely includes Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, that symbiotic study of lonely spirits in stultifying small towns seeking the mind's freedom and the heart's release. Director Vivian Matalon has sensed that aspect of the play, and his cast, wondrous in its ensemble excellence, embodies it. Whether one goes to the theater to laugh, to cry, to muse or to learn, Morning's at Seven satisfies all four appetites. -T. E. Kalem
...Robert E. Sherwood...
...Zalmon Sherwood Geneva, Ohio...
...trend that invites such inquiries has been developing for quite a while. It had started well before it was dramatized in the memorable gymnastics of Sammy Davis Jr. flinging his little arms about Richard Nixon. Franklin Roosevelt, in fact, enlisted Playwright Robert Sherwood as a ghost, and subsequent Presidents increasingly turned to theatrical artisans for help, especially after TV got big. By the 1970s the political scene seemed so stagey that Anthropologist Edmund Carpenter was moved to say that "the White House is now essentially a TV performance." He exaggerated, but not by much...
...Owner Sherwood Costen, 66, a shy retired municipal employee from Point Pleasant, W. Va., raised his winner and her four sisters as wild birds. While less savvy contestants carried their fowl around feet first in the hot sun, Costen cradled Lola in the shade of a thick maple...