The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-11-03
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By LEMUEL F. PARTON

NEW YORK.-A few years ago
l Y this writer had the job of get
ting up an amateur entertainment
Robert Sherwood was just an added
starter, but he
Gay or Staid, the show. He is
c,cI six feet, six
oteiS o"oW inches tall, Of
lath-like dimensions and has trick
of undulating both his chest and his
Adams apple at the same time,
when he sings. To hear him sing,
when the Rob-Rob-Robin Comes
Bob Bob Bobbin'," undulating
through a full octave, and Tapping
his long arms, is rare entertain
ment. He could have filled the the.
aters that way if he hadn't become
a playwright.
With all his gift for foolery,
his is the "weltschmerz" of a
shy, sensitive, thoughtful man,
and his are the peculiarly civil
lized qualities which enabled
him to portray "Abe Lincoln in
Illinois" with insight and fidelity
which have brought the hearth
est critical salvo of years and
many cries of "the great Ameri-
can drama at last" Some of the
reviewers see 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-Searching.
Mr.. Sherwood may be man Of
destiny.
He would dismiss all that with 6
slight thoracic undulation and per.
haps a modest quip. He is the least
pontifcal of men, as he proved
when he was a drum-major in the
war. Unable to make the grade ir
our army, he joined the Canadian
Black Watch. They put him in kits
gave him a shake and a huge baton
and enjoyed him tremendously as
he quickly mastered the necessary
twirling and stick-tossing stunts
But they also used him in plenty Of
fighting, in several hot engage
ments. The trouble was that the
trenches were only six feet deep anc
he was a constant lure to enemy
sharpshooters. He was gassed ano
sent to the hospital for 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, die
a two weeks turn as reporter ir
Boston, joined the staff 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' Sur
PRISE" which he wrote at the
age of eight. His fame as a
playwright began with "The
Road to Rome" which he wrote
in 1927, "just to lift couple of
mortgages" as he put it. In
1922, he married Miss Mary
Brandon, the actress. He has
an apartment in Sutton place,
New York, and a modest estate
in Surrey, England, where he
has been helping Alexander KOr-
da produce films.
M ANAGER EDWARD JOHN
1Nl SONS musical autarchy at the
Metropolitan comes along slowly
and we aren't yet quite unsteady
self : sustaining
Met dResd For the opening
Singer From of its new sea
pL son, the Met an.
ooA ~ nounced IA new
singers. There is one American
contralto, II Germans, Austrians
Italians and Swedes and two new
American male singers, John Car
ter and Leonard Warren.
Over in our Rockland county,
N. Y, we have been quite ex-
cited over a popular local
farmer" as one of the parochial
sheets had it, making the grade
at the Metropolitan. He is the
26-year-old Mr.. Carter, who has
been growing beans and pota-
toes, singing at his work, near
New City. Mr.. Carter, born in
New York city, studied engi-
neering at New York university.
The depression turned him to
vaudeville and later to his joint
cultivation of voice and garden
truck. He and Mr.. Warren were
winners in the MetropOlitan's
addition of last March.
Mr.. Warren, also rs, was born II
the Bronx, son of a Russian-borr
fur dealer. He felt constraint il
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 hac
voice. He studied at Columbis
university and night school.
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