Show WHO'S NEWS THIS xI WEEK t By LEMUEL F F. F PARTON N NEW EW Y YORK YORK YORK-A A A few years ago this writer had the job of getting getting getting get get- ting up an amateur entertainment Robert Sherwood was just an added starter but he Bob D Sherwood j ran away with Gay or Staid the show He is isI I Steals Q i Show c six feet six inches tall of la like lath dimensions and has a trick of undulating both his chest and his Adams Adam's apple at the same time when he sings To hear him sing When the Robin Rob-Rob-Robin Comes Bob Bob Bobbin undulating through a full octave and flapping his long arms is rare entertain entertain- ment He could have filled the theaters theaters theaters the the- aters that way if he hadn't become a playwright With all his gift for foolery his is the of or a ashy ashy ashy shy sensitive thoughtful man and his are the peculiarly civilized civilized civilized civi civi- qualities which enabled him to portray Abe Lincoln In Illinois with insight and fidelity which have brought the heartiest heartiest heartiest est critical salvo of or years and many cries of the great American Ameri Ameri- can drama at last Some of the reviewers see sec here a thrilling play within a play in the skilled and timely dramatization of Lincoln's timeless utterance at just this moment of national wavering and soul Mr lUre Sherwood ma may be a n man of destiny He would dismiss all that with a slight thoracic undulation and perhaps perhaps perhaps per per- haps a modest quip He is the least pontifical of men as he proved when he was a major drum-major in the war Unable to make the grade in our army he joined the Canadian Black Watch They put him in kilts gave him a shako and a huge baton and enjoyed him tremendously as ashe ashe ashe he quickly mastered the necessary twirling and tossing stick-tossing stunts But they also used him in plenty of ot fighting in several hot engage engage- ments The trouble was that the trenches were only six feet deep and he was a constant lure to enemy sharpshooters He was gassed and sent to the hospital for a long stretch about two feet beyond the end of the cot He read a great deal and decided to be an author Demobilized he connected with Vanity Fair as dramatic critic did dida a two weeks' weeks turn as a reporter in Boston joined the sta stall staff I of Life and later became its editor He was born in New Rochelle in 1896 and left Harvard to get into the war This is his eleventh play not counting Tom Ruggles' Ruggles Surprise Surprise Sur Sur- prise which he lie wrote at the age of eight His fame ame as a playwright began with The Road to Rome which he wrote in 1927 just to l lift t a n couple of mortgages as he put it In 1922 he married Miss Mary Brandon the actress He lIe has hasan hasan hasan an apartment in Sutton place New York and a modest estate in Surrey England where he has been helping Alexander Korda Korda Korda Kor- Kor da produce f films ms MANAGER EDWARD JOHNSON'S JOHNSONS JOHNSONS JOHNSON'S JOHN JOHN- SONS SON'S musical autarchy at the comes along slowly and we arent aren't yet quite musically self sus sustaining I Met Takes a For the opening Singer From of its new seaP sea- sea son son the Met announced an- an P Potato P Patch atc h 14 new singers There is one American contralto 11 Germans Austrians Italians and Swedes and two new American male singers John Carter Carter Carter Car Car- ter ter and Leonard Leonnrd Warren Over in our Rockland county N. N Y we have been quite excited excited excited ex ex- cited over a n popular local farmer as one of or the parochial sheets had it making the grade at the Metropolitan I He lIe is the year old Mr lUr Carter who has been growing beans and potatoes potatoes pota pota- toes singing at his work worle near New CIt City Mr Carter born in New York cit city studied engineering engineering engineering engi engi- at New York university The depression turned him to vaudeville and later to his joint cultivation of or voice and garden truck He lIe and Mr Warren were winners in the Metropolitans Metropolitan's audition of last March Mr Warren also 26 26 was born In Inthe inthe inthe the Bronx son of a Russian-born Russian fur dealer He felt constraint in turning his big voice loose in i town but let it run rim in the big north woods with his father on fur-buying fur trips That was Vas how be he first knew he had hada a voice He studied at Columbia university and night school e 0 Consolidated News Features Service SOr |