| Show Sherman H Had d It the First Time ime Says ays WW W W tty i Walter Waiter Winchell Forecast of the New Theater Season L 1 Jhn U It The customary output of war plays on 1 Spain and 2 China will take up the matter grimly padding into three dreary acts what Sherman said in three words One of the lyrics in a Cole Forter Porter Porter Por For ter score will wiIl be a huge inside laugh to the crowd at the time Colony and a mystery to the performers who sing it and the general public pub pub- lic Several Wall WaIl Streeters disgusted with the slip shod way the theater theaters is s run will join up tip in a production production tion ion and run it on sound business principles They will wind up with everything accounted for neatly neaty neat- neat ly iy y and in in red ink An ex-chorus ex doll eager to show her coll colleagues agues how well she's doIng doing dong do- do ing ng will drop about of her adorers adorer's coin and spend the tM rest of the season complaining that people dont don't want entertainment arty more The gossip between curtains re relaying relaying relaying re- re laying the identity of the real back backer r th the thi actual money spent for opening and the leading ladys lady's huddles Those Sunday articles irrefutably proving the road is and is not lead dead That unknown play that will 4 sneak in after an epidemic of turkeys turkeys tur tur- turkeys tur keys and became the darling of the theater brokers like Room Service Service Service Ser Ser- vice Three Thre Men on a Horse and The Childrens Children's Hour No opening will be complete without Hope Hampton cute and Immaculate Immaculate immaculate late walking down the aisles and taking her place unostentatiously in A That set one-set comedy with six people people peo peo- pie populated with unknowns which will be postponed 12 times on account of mechanical difficulties difficulties difficulties ties i. i e. e the backers backer's brother- brother law in-law could not fell ecu his taxicab for for the Equity bond The drama which will be furiously panned and turn out to the consternation consternation con con- of the critics to become smash like The Women a Irish Rose and ana of course Tobacco Tobacco Tobacco To bacco Road Mrs Roosevelt in her column will take umbrage with the critics for panning a new play that should have been patted And Brooks Atkinson courteously but firmly taking the tile trouble to re remind remind remind re- re mind her that with all due respect the presidents president's wile wife has no jurisdiction jurisdiction juris juris- jurisdiction diction in the dramatic domain domain- and go Back Where She Came Caine From 1 One of the more elderly femme female stars will show up gushing sweet platitudes hoping her sunny nature na ture will make the customers overlook overlook over look the poundage she's acquired In two idle seasons Lunt and Fontanne will sell out as usual and 16 managers will attribute attribute attribute at at- tribute the death of their turkeys to the fact that L L. 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F weren't available for them Katharine Hepburn's return to a stage stege role will be announced every Tuesday instead of all the days of the week as heretofore Playwrights lost to the cinema for lor several years will come back bach backwith backwith with dialogue written strictly in Hollywood terms terms all all dollars and millions antI antl sable and amI yachts There will There will be interviews in inthe inthe the drama sections about the time man- man wife and-wife author team how Lloyd always thought of the best lines and Myrtle figured out the romance A returning timer old old timer will get a tremendous ovation on opening night and wont won't be finished bowing bowing bowing bow bow- ing until the trucks have backed up to haul away the show Somebody is sure to fetch in some I with the historical hi monkey business girls swinging fans the heroes swinging scarlet cloaks and the critics swinging hamm hammers rs jn un me trio U 01 when Nathan sits in instead of on his fur coat the show will be bei al all all about South Sea Islanders Islander collapsing from heat There will be a couple of numbers viciously vicious vicious- ly Iy walloping F D R and the White Whit WhiteHouse House set but which will fail because because be because be- be cause of the extinction of the Re Re- publicans Hitler will be impersonated In some of the revues as a soprano as the shadow of war war war- warin in the Interpretive interpretive In Interpretive in- in dances as a spoiled brat and a windbag And why not not not-he's he's hes written all those roles for himself In all ail likelihood the tho coming season will be bo remembered as the theone theone theone one which introduced television as an alibi for bad business As always the usual quota of wonder boys managers boys managers directors actors will actors will emerge and last years year's wizards can laugh at tho the nonsense they're spouting in the press which press which is their own in newer words There will be no rio sound of clattering clattering clat dat- I dishes and rattling knives in inthe inthe the Algonquin eating rooms rooms rooms-be- be because cause it cant can't rise above the English English En En- glish gush accents The Kaufman Kaufman- Hart show will have one character who speaks witty lines with deadpan deadpan deadpan dead dead- pan crispness |
