Word: wiman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boys and girls are queens together at the Shubert Theatre for the next two weeks, and it's all feasting and fun. That theatre fast we've endured is over at long last; "All's Fair," the new Dwight Deere Wiman musical comedy, has hove into town. If you're interested, the title is taken from the old saw about "All's fair in love and war." And certainly the doings on the Shubert stage are equitable enough. It's a definite pleasure to report that the show is a sharp buy. All the attributes of a top musical...
Solitaire (adapted by John van Druten from Edwin Code's novel; produced by Dwight Deere Wiman) is a harmless piece of flimsy-whimsy about a poor little rich girl who makes friends with a kindly old tramp, visits him in his hobo jungle, coos over his tame rat, prattles on about Life. Her snobbish parents and his tougher fellow tramps whip up, between them, some lurid melodrama, but nothing that a final curtain can't cure...
Letters to Lucerne (by Fritz Rotter & Allen Vincent; produced by Dwight Deere Wiman). War, via letters from home, comes to a small Swiss boarding school, peopled with girls of many nationalities. The junior misses, the most attractive part of the play (see p. 54), are nice but inadequate when they try to cope with worldwide catastrophe...
Richard Barthelmess' daughter, Mary, Leopold Stokowski's daughter, Sonya, Clive Brook's daughter, Faith, Producer Dwight Deere Wiman's daughter, Nancy, Writer Stephen Morehouse Avery's daughter, Phyllis, all played schoolgirl roles in a new Broadway show, Letters to Lucerne (see p. 47), and proved the brightest spot...
...People that eventually made its way to Broadway. Last week's show, entitled They Can't Get You Down, was confected by the same trio that put Meet the People together (Henry Myers, Edward Eliscu, Jay Gorney) and dished up by Jack Kirkland and Dwight Deere Wiman, who spent some $25,000 on its production...