Word: shumlin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Watch on the Rhine (produced by Herman Shumlin). Lillian Hellman, No. 1 U.S. woman playwright (The Children's Hour, The Little Foxes), has written an uneven play concerning Naziism, but it is by far the best on the subject to date. There is not a single Nazi in it. It tells of the daughter of a dead American diplomat (Mady Christians), who returns from Europe to her luxurious, flower-filled old home outside Washington, D.C., bringing with her the German engineer (Paul Lukas) she married 20 years before and their three children. Since 1933 her husband has been...
...devotees had themselves a sentimentally huge half hour -an NBC Blue Network program celebrating Ethel's 40th anniversary as a star and the ripe, mature job of warming Broadway audiences she is now doing in The Corn Is Green. There were tributes from Producers Arthur Hopkins and Herman Shumlin, Helen Hayes, Louis B. Mayer, Alexander Woollcott, and it was the first radio program to include Ethel and both the Brothers Barrymore...
...Corn Is Green (by Emlyn Williams, produced by Herman Shumlin) joins a good sound sentimental play with just the actress for the job: Ethel Barrymore. Although its young Welsh author is best known in the U. S. for his murder drama Night Must Fall, this is no story of a psychopathic killer. It is a warm, wise semi-autobiography. It ran for nearly 700 performances in London, many during the blackout...
...HERMAN SHUMLIN...
...masked informer point out that as of April 3, 1939, Herman Shumlin was the only Broadway producer advertising in TIME? If so, what deduction was drawn and/or quartered, what brands burned in whose hides...