Show NEWS THIS I 1 WEE WEEK K by LEMUEL F PARTON FEW E W YORK A few years ago na N i this writer had the job of getting up an amateur entert entertainment ailment ain ment R robert obert sherwood was wae just an added starter but he bob sherwood ran away with gay or staid the show ile he is six feet six S steals C f eals I 1 show CI inches hes tall of lath like dimensions and has a trick of undulating both his chest and his ad adams ams apple at the same time when he be sings to hear him sing when the rob rob robin comes bob bob bobbin undulating through a full octave and flapping his long arms is rare entertainment ment he could have filled the theaters that way if he be become a playwright with all his gift for foolery his is the welt schmerz of a shy sensitive thoughtful man and his are the peculiarly CIVI civilized qualities which enabled him to portray abe lincoln in illinois with insight and fidelity which have bave brought the heartiest critical salvo of years and many cries of the great american drama at last some of the reviewers see here a thrilling M at play within a play in the skilled and timely dramatization of Lincol ns timeless utterance at just this moment of national wavering and soul searching mr sherwood may be a man of of destiny he would dismiss all that with a slight thoracic undulation and perhaps a modest quip he is the least pontifical of men as he proved when he was a 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 he quickly mastered the necessary twirling and stick tossing stun stunts ts but they also used him in p plenty I 1 enty of fighting in several hot engagements 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 De mobilized he connected with vanity fair as dramatic critic did a two weeks turn as a reporter in boston joined the staff of life and later late became its editor lie 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 buggies surprise which he wrote at the age of eight his fame as a an road to rome which he be wrote in 1927 just to lift a couple of mortgages as he put it in 1923 1922 he married miss mary brandon the actress ile he has an apartment in sutton place new york and a modest estate in surrey england where he has been helping alexander korda produce faiq films MS M MANAGER EDWARD JOHNSONS musical autarchy at the metropolitan comes along slowly and we arent yet quite musically self sustaining met takes a for the opening singer from of its new sea potato patch son sf the met announced 14 new singers there is one american contralto I 1 11 I 1 germans austrians Aust rians italians and swedes and two new american male singers john carter and leonard warren over in our rockland county N Y we have been quite excited over a popular local farmer it as one of the parochial sheets had it making the grade at the metropolitan lie ile is the year old mr carter who has been growing beans and potatoes singing at his work near new city mr carter born in new york city studied engineering at new york university the depression turned him to vaudeville and later to his bis joint cultivation of voice and garden truck ile he and mr aft warren were winners in the metropolitans itans audition of last march mr warren also 26 was born in the bronx son of a russian born bori I 1 fur dealer he felt constraint in turning his big voice loose in town but let it run in the big north woods with his father on fur buying trips that was how he first knew he had a voice voice he studied at columbia university and night school 0 consolidated news new features service |