Word: russell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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State of the Union (by Howard Lindsay & Russel Grouse; produced by Leland Hay ward) is a very amusing comedy about fairly serious matters. Playwrights Lindsay & Grouse, authors of Life With Father, have vaulted from Father Day to Uncle Sam, from family crotchets to political criticism. With the war ended and self-interest back at the old stand, Lindsay & Grouse are pleading for national unity. But they are shrewd enough to woo their audiences with laughter rather than weary them with lecturing...
...Married. Russel McKinley Crouse, 52, waggish teammate of Howard Lindsay in playwriting and producing (Life with Father, Arsenic and Old Lace); and Anna Erskine, 29, theatrical production assistant (Lindsay & Crouse), only daughter of Author John Erskine; she for the first time, he for the second; in Manhattan...
...RUSSEL GROUSE...
...Hasty Heart (by John Patrick; produced by Howard Lindsay and Russel Grouse) adds up-or rather, whittles down -to a very interesting evening. In sterner and more skillful hands, this tale of the thawing out of a man who locked the bitter herbs of loneliness in the ice of pride could have been an impressive play...
...Russel Crouse, half of the witty, successful playwriting-producing team of Lindsay & Crouse (Life with Father, Arsenic and Old Lace), in Baltimore trying out a new show (The Hasty Heart), exploited his versatility by subbing for a stormbound bagpipe player, imitated the bagpipe's wheeze until the fellow showed...