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...Searching Wind (by Lillian Hellman; produced by Herman Shumlin) gave Broadway its first really provocative drama of the season. Unlike Playwright Hellman's The Children's Hour, The Little Foxes, Watch on the Rhine, her The Searching Wind is not predominantly taut, violent, intense. Its span is long and its world spacious, though the action itself is too crowded at times. Playwright Hellman has pitched a handful of lives into the swirling history of our age. Her ominous little Washington dinner party of today not only resolves a puzzling 22-year-old triangle story; it audits the conduct...
...Herman Shumlin, who produced and directed the play, directed the picture. He knew he had a good thing in his stage cast, moved most of the principals from footlights to Kleig lights...
When Watch on the Rhine was casting, Paul Lukas had to talk his way out of the part of the man he shoots. Originally, Producer Shumlin had Lukas down for the Rumanian villain. Lukas' on-&-offstage persuasiveness subsequently won him 1) the New York Drama League's coveted Delia Austrian medal for 1941's most distinguished performance, 2) nine out of nine votes in Variety's critics' poll of the season's best acting. The National Fathers' Day Committee presented Lukas with a plaque (for the year's best portrayal...
...Great Big Doorstep (adapted by Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett from the novel by E. P. O'Donnell; produced by Herman Shumlin) is a folk comedy about a ramshackle family of Cajuns in lower Louisiana. Its pleasant sliver of plot concerns their fishing a handsome doorstep out of the Mississippi and then trying to get a house to go with...
...Crochet daughters, and Jack Manning at the son, are effective and almost believable. But the play as a whole is a loss; it tries hard to be slight and unpretentious, and succeeds so well that for all practical purposes it might just as well never be seen. Mr. Shumlin will like the Army...