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...awful lot of mail from women like me," says Torch Singer Roberta Sherwood. "That is, from the women with a middle-aged spread. A lot of them had ambitions that were never realized, and I guess I look as if I am realizin' them." Thus, after bowing demurely to an ovation at Manhattan's Copacabana, Singer Sherwood explained the infectious appeal that in the last year has turned her, at 43, into the nation's biggest new nightclub...
...more than its share of a nation's major literary figures, in both critical and imaginative writing. In this century the University has left its mark on Conrad Aiken, Robert Benchley, e.e.cummings, John Dos Passos, T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, John Marquand, Eugene O'Neill, Edward Arlington Robinson, Robert Sherwood, Wallace Stevens, and Thomas Wolfe, to name an even dozen. While this may be due to the undeniable attraction of a Harvard diploma for the talented, an examination of specific cases indicates that the University did not pass these...
Person to Person (Fri. 10:30 p.m., CBS). Edward R. Murrow visits Actor Kirk Douglas, Singer Roberta Sherwood...
Small War on Murray Hill was the late Robert Sherwood's last play and very likely his mildest one. Telling how British General Sir William Howe (Leo Genn), not too happy about the issues of the American Revolution, dangerously dawdled while occupying New York to enjoy the charms of a patriotic Mrs. Murray (Jan Sterling), the play brings Minerva into the old conflict of Venus v. Mars. Smacking much less of the bedroom than the drawing-room, Small War perhaps smacks most of all of the library. In his use of various characters, Sherwood turned vaguely speculative...
Behind Small War on Murray Hill lies the faint shadow of a great war all over the world that had colored Sherwood's thinking and that gives his play, at moments, a certain pensive grace. But it has given it neither dramatic fiber nor intellectual focus. Offering well-turned prose rather than vivacious dialogue, Small War is too reflective for light comedy, yet it is not nearly stimulating enough for a comedy of ideas...