New Play in Manhattan

Co-Respondent Unknown (By Mildred Harris & Harold Goldman; MacKenna, Mielziner & Mayer, Producers). Title role in this conjugal rough-&-tumble is played by Peggy Conklin, the extremely pretty brunette who was bundled into dramatic fame in The Pursuit of Happiness (TIME, Oct. 23, 1933). Last year she was the pert daughter of the Arizona quick-lunch proprietor in The Petrified Forest. In Co-Respondent Unknown Actress Conklin again appears as a gamine whose innocence about sex is equaled only by her curiosity.

The tale told by Playwright Harris, sister of Producer Jed Harris, and her collaborator concerns an economist who is misunderstood by his actress wife but profoundly appreciated by the New Deal and a female book reviewer of The New Republic. All hands agree to a collusive divorce, necessitating the employment of a professional corespondent, an honest girl from Tenth Avenue (Miss Conklin). The drama then resolves itself into the following questions: Will Miss Conklin put on the pink pajamas? If so, will she get into bed with Actor James Rennie? If so, will she spend the night? If so, will he do right by her next morning? Co-Respondent Unknown gives each of these inquiries the properly titivating answer. If Co-Respondent Unknown survives 100 nights, its run will be another tribute to the capable emotional stripteasing by which Actress Conklin kept The Pursuit of Happiness alive for 250 performances. Before Miss Conklin had perfected her technique of being winsome, dumb and sexy all at the same time, she hoofed obscurely in the choruses of several musicals, played in half a dozen inferior legitimate shows without exciting much remark. She was born 26 years ago in Dobbs Ferry. N. Y. Last summer she married a Wall Streeter named James Daniel Thompson. Less attractive on the screen than behind footlights, she appeared in The President Vanishes and One-Way Ticket. Champagne is her favorite drink. She plays ping-pong and tennis, likes sail boats, thinks President Roosevelt is "doing all right."

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