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...Stevens became a member of this company in 1951 only because the then writing members of it-Maxwell Anderson, Robert Sherwood and Elmer Rice-had desperate need of the business ability and organizing acumen to accelerate production of plays by other authors which Roger Stevens, a successful businessman, was eminently able to provide. That Mr. Stevens also happened to have some ready cash was deplored by none...
...merely making money was not enough for Stevens, and he drifted into Detroit's Drama Guild. Before long, he bought his way onto Broadway, joined the board of ANTA, then became a member of the Playwrights' Company. He impressed such topflight playwrights as Maxwell Anderson and Robert Sherwood as a wonderful source of cash. Stevens now runs syndicates of theatrical angels and archangels, one of which put together $540,000 for this year's ventures alone (his own contribution: $30,000). Stevens is also a director of a company that controls eight important theaters, guaranteeing a home...
Producer Wald (20th Century-Fox) is running up new box-office records with Peyton Place, has a dozen other books (from Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio to Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury) either almost in the can or getting ready for the cameras. When there are not enough books to his liking on the market, Wald invents some. For years he saved clippings on the subject of young college-grad career girls in the big city, finally talked to Simon and Schuster's late editor. Jack Goodman, who passed the tip on to a promising...
...long way to go to hold his own with U.S. prep schoolers. He was put through every textbook in the USIS language center, and when he was officially awarded the scholarship in April, he began taking special lessons with the wife of Consul General Henry H. Ford. Consul Robert Sherwood took him home to play with his two boys, aged 7 and 11. Soon Abdie replaced salaam with...
...Naked Earth (20th Century-Fox] may come as an unpleasant shock to Richard Todd fans. Actor Todd is well-known as the movie Robin Hood, romping boyishly about Sherwood Forest, bunging arrows at the Sheriff of Nottingham and dimpling at sight of Maid Marian. Now, all of a sudden, it turns out that he is shacked up with a Marseille whore in a thatched hut in Uganda...