Word: wiman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Loves Me Not (adapted by Howard Lindsay from Edward Hope's Saturday Evening Post novel; Dwight Deere Wiman and Tom Weatherly, producers). In 1928 Princeton University permitted Hollywood cameramen, Director Frank Wright Tuttle (Yale 1915) and Actor Charles ("Buddy") Rogers (University of Kansas) to swarm over real Princeton bedrooms, bleachers, dining halls for a "real" college cinema. Nevertheless the resultant Varsity showed the usual Hollywood misconception of U. S. college life...
...Deere Wiman, producer). If Johann Strauss was looking down last week from his waltz-heaven he was probably scandalized at the way little Helen Ford (Dearest Enemy) laced herself into a high old-fashioned corset, powdered herself suggestively and came forth to pipe his pet coloratura aria with comically fluttering eyelids and exaggerated soubrette wiggles. But these things supplied the few bright intervals in this latest of many versions of Die Fledermaus. The plot is the same old one : a rich, stuffy Viennese (Tenor George Meader), sentenced to a week in jail, first takes an evening off, goes...
...same authors and with the same cast, will appear soon, to be called Let 'Em Eat Cake. Frederick Lonsdale's new play, Foreigners, will be given a production by Arch Selwyn. Maria Jeritza, a rich musical comedy personality, will be seen in the operetta Jerry. Dwight Wiman and Lawrence Langner are reviving Strauss's Die Fledermaus with Peggy Wood and Helen Ford singing the leads. George S. Kaufman, that perennial collaborator, and Alexander Woollcott have written a mystery play for Sam Harris. Philip Barry's new play, about the home life of some Boston Irish Catholics...
...Divorce (libretto by Dwight Taylor; words & music by Cole Porter; Dwight Deere Wiman, producer). For this bright little musicomedy Composer Porter (The New Yorkers), whom Yalemen remember as the author of "Bulldog, Bull-dog," has written some of his most beguiling melodies and lyrics. Sample...
...tendency to remark: "What of it?" Margaret Perry, a pretty girl with eyes that turn up at the corners, easily turns in the best performance and if the actors had something to do or say in the last act the whole affair might have turned out differently. Dwight Deere Wiman, whose cruiser Moanin' Low commemorates his (and William A. Brady Jr.'s) highly successful production of the first Little Show, is the producer...