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...Lord Fancourt Babberley (José Ferrer, late of The Princeton Triangle Club), who for the umphundredth time agreed to help two fellow Oxonians out of sentimental dilemmas by impersonating the aunt of one of them. And they ogled three of the prettiest baggages (Mary Mason, Phyllis Avery, Katherine Wiman) exhibited this year on a Manhattan stage...
Higher and Higher (music & lyrics by Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart; produced by Dwight Deere Wiman). In virtually all musicomedies, the book is merely a nuisance, like the bones in fish. But in Higher and Higher it becomes as much of an outright menace as maggots in cheese...
Leave Her to Heaven (by John van Druten; produced by Dwight Deere Wiman) brought Actress Ruth Chatterton to Broadway for the first time in nearly 15 years. It was not much of a homecoming. Playwright van Druten's idea of celebrating was to bring on the stage some distinctly unattractive people who do decidedly unsavory things and come to extremely unpleasant ends. And he did his best to make the play as dull as it was depressing...
...Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.'s George Huntington Hartford II; Chewing Gum's Philip Knight Wrigley; Marion Rosenwald Stern and her brother, Lessing Julius Rosenwald of Sears, Roebuck & Co.; Lawyer Garrard Bigelow Winston, Under Secretary of the Treasury in Calvin Coolidge's Administration; Producer Dwight Deere Wiman; Columnist Dorothy Thompson...
Morning's at Seven (by Paul Osborn; produced by Dwight Deere Wiman). Two seasons ago the Broadway critics threw their hats in the air over Playwright Osborn's On Borrowed Time, a deft piece of flimsy-whimsey about a small boy, an old man, and Death kept at bay in an apple tree. When Osborn's Morning's at Seven opened last week, many more critical thumbs went down than hats went up. All the same, Morning's at Seven is as much better than On Borrowed Time as butter is than margarine...