Word: sirovich
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...critics spurned the doctor-playwright-legislator's invitation, heaped upon him their most venomous wit and satire. Thereupon Congressman Sirovich began to talk about subpenaing them...
Unhappily, Dr. Sirovich, in his remarks before the Patents Committee, had made several errors of fact. Of the 75 Manhattan playhouses available for the production of legitimate drama, 29, not ten, were operating last week. The Woollcott play to which he referred, The Channel Road, written in collaboration with George S. Kaufman, was presented in 1929 and promptly retired under the almost unanimous damnation of fellow critics...
...Sirovich's first dramatic effort, Schemers, was produced in September, 1924. It was a drama in three acts, a prologue and epilogue, designed to ridicule the antics of four theatre critics?"Alexander Gale." "Alan Olcott," "Perry Ammond," "A. Wood Brown''?who, asked to sit through a play's preview, ending by thoroughly damning it. There was something prophetic about Schemers. It retired after 16 performances...
...quips and cracks with which Manhattan wiseacres greeted the Sirovich attack, among the most amusing was one by Franklin Pierce ("F. P. A.") Adams who thus parodied a tune currently sung by Rudy Vallee in the Scandals...
...take it Sirovich...