Word: wiman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Derek Wiman '60, who procured the film from the Hungarian Student Service. called it "vivid" and "realistic." He said that it included closeups of street fighting and pictures of Hungarians burning the Russian flag and cutting the red star out of their own flag...
Romeo and Juliet (by William Shakespeare; a Dwight Deere Wiman production) seems Jess a play, to the world at large, than a great romantic legend. To the theater, it seems less a play than a part. No one produces it out of enthusiasm for its story alone. No one goes to see it because the Romeo is good, or stays home because he isn't. Everything centers on its not quite 14-year-old heroine; for lady stars, Juliet is a final goal and often a graveyard. There is a double hazard: the part demands the maturest art, must...
...current production is a tribute to a great many people, apart from the author. It is a tribute to producer Dwight Deere Wiman, who did not live to see it on the stage. Robert Edmond Jones, who designed the original production, has proved that he still has a powerful command of light and form and color. He has mounted "The Green Pastures" in simple, direct colors as warm as the fable itself. He is frank to admit that his sets are made of painted canvas, and the result is completely disarming...
Died. Dwight Deere Wiman, 55, Illinois-born Broadway producer (The Little Show, The Country Girl), an heir to the John Deere plow fortune; after a brief illness; in Hudson...
...Country Girl (by Clifford Odets; produced by Dwight Deere Wiman) brings back Odets, after more than ten years in the wasteland, to the land of the living. It by no means brings him back in triumph; even when his play throbs, it is not always with honest life, and by the end it looks footlighted and chalky. But it has passages of fierce feeling that only Odets could write, and characters that at moments are bitingly real...