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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Feb. 9, 1942 | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Jan. 5, 1942 | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jan. 5, 1942 | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Show in Hollywood | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

...Acquaintance (by John van Druten, produced by Dwight Deere Wiman) is a treat for acting students. It puts two Big Names on the stage at once-Jane Cowl and Peggy Wood. They might try to mug each other out of the drama, but both have a full kit of the tricks of their trade and they show how mutually helpful such tricksters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan, Jan. 6, 1941 | 1/6/1941 | See Source »

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