Word: wookey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Goldwyn when he merged with Samuel Goldfish in 1916. Director of Helen Hayes's Oscar-winning movie (The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931), Selwyn's best-known Broadway productions were Why Marry (1917-first Pulitzer Prize play), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1926), The Wookey...
Heading it are Katharine Cornell, Ju dith Anderson, Ruth Gordon. Flanking them, moreover - in mere character parts - are Edmund Gwenn, who last season swaggered through the gaudy title role of The Wookey; Alexander Knox, who last season minced through the prissy title role of Jason; Dennis King, who made girlish hearts beat faster as the hero of Show Boat, Rose Marie, The Vagabond King...
...amused these days anyway. There are lots of pet theories, but none of them quite covers "Candle In The Wind," "Eve Of St. Mark," "Letters To Lucerne," "Plan M"; none of them can explain away "Heart Of The City," "The Moon Is Down," "The Morning Star," "The Wookey,"--et cetera, ad infinitum, strictement pour les oiseaux...
...worst with war plays. Of nine that were produced, none had real merit, only The Wookey had any popular appeal...
Heart of a City is a teacup version of The Wookey, with more sugar in it than tea. At times it is touching, at other times amusing (there is plenty of good old British ragging to tone down its heroics); but lacking imagination and any real eye for character, Playwright Storm can write only with a kind of mild, admiring tremulousness. She never really gets round to writing a play. Heart of a City is almost entirely atmosphere, and all its scenes are pretty much alike. Hence each scene is less effective than the one before it, and by curtain...