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...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...
Dance Me a Song (produced by Dwight Deere Wiman) is a professional-looking revue that uses an amateur-night technique. All sorts of people have "entered" individual songs and sketches in the show; and whether from too many cooks, or mere incompetent cooking, Dance Me a Song makes very thin broth. For awhile it can just manage to be termed uneven; by the end, there is no kinder word than weak. The show boasts a batch of sprightly and likable young people, including Dancer Joan McCracken. But youth at the prow can seldom prosper without ability in the engine room...
Chicagoans had heard much about two of the three, multimillionaire Grain Merchant James Norris, owner of Detroit's Red Wing hockey team, and Charles Deere Wiman, president of the century-old John Deere Plow Co. and brother of Theatrical Producer Dwight Deere Wiman. Virtually unknown was spruce Henry Crown, 53, who took his place (with Norris) on the Rock Island's executive board last week, and began to help run the railroad...