Word: whitmanic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...five doubles matches were salvaged by Bob Ashley's charges. Levin and Whitman won their set, while Arthur Ecker and Roberts combined to pick up the second Crimson victory...
Hendricks H. Whitman...
...Whitman Avenue (by Maxine Wood; produced by Canada Lee & Mark Marvin in association with George McLain) brings an upstanding Negro family to live in a genteel white neighborhood. At once there are rumbles and soon there is an uproar. A sympathetic landlord and a few others fight the rest of the community to let the family stay, but the pressure becomes too great and the Negroes are forced...
Despite its painfully vital theme and generally plausible story, On Whitman Avenue is flattish propaganda and flatter theater. Working from the problem in, instead of from the people out, it consistently substitutes cardboard for flesh & blood, cliches for sharp, individual reactions. Dramatically, moreover, it soon hobbles, eventually halts. Fairly interesting while matters are coming to a head, from then on it can only .repeat its wrangles, restate its issues, and delay its ending...
...Idler's. The current performance collapses wholly in the sadly inadequate portrayals of most of the leading characters, especially that of Oedipus, which Henry P. Robbins exaggerates and destroys, despite good diction, with a stream of sculpturesque poses, haling deliveries, and indecorous tiltings of the head. Only William Whitman, a last-minute substitute in the role of Creon, approached the adequate. As Directress Mary Manning Howe said not quite inclusively enough in her program notes, "Purists and scholars will, no doubt, find much to shudder at in our production...