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...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...
...Second Little Show. If Producers William A. Brady and Dwight Deere Wiman had felt free to dispense with the valuable title of their successful intimate review of last season their present attraction would not suffer by inevitable comparison. Last week critics could not restrain themselves from hearking back to the cleverness of last year's show, the clowning of Fred Allen, the gyrations of Clifton Webb, the ululations of Libby Holman...