New Playlets in Manhattan

Hope's the Thing (by Richard Harrity; produced by Eddie Dowling) was a rather rare event: an evening of playlets on Broadway by a man who had never had a play there. When the Experimental Theatre recently staged one-act plays by an assortment of playwrights, Harrity's Hope Is the Thing with Feathers* so ran away with the reviews that Producer Dowling offered Harrity a one-man show.

Unfortunately Feathers--a night-lighted study of bums in Central Park--was as superior to Harrity's other work as it had been to the other fellows'. About all Harrity's other work could boast was that it brought Producer Dowling's wife, Ray Dooley, out of retirement and let her toss in, for oldtimers' sake, her famous Follies routine of a squalling infant. At week's end Hope was a thing of the past.

* Which, in shortened form, became the overall title for last week's Broadway production.

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