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...Proudly We Hail (by Joseph M. Viertel Shapiro; James R. Ullman, producer). Author Shapiro, 21, is the son of the proprietor of the French Casino, a Manhattan hotspot. Young Mr. Shapiro attended Staunton Military Academy in Virginia for four years with a brilliant record, was graduated from Harvard last June magna cum laude. So Proudly We Hail, Mr. Shapiro's first attempt at professional playwriting, lacks craftsmanship, balance and subtlety. As a propaganda piece, however, it is as brutally effective as a meat-ax, contains enough obviously first-hand documentation, along with its exaggerations, to deter hundreds of parents...
Turned down by the Dramatic Club last year, Joseph M. V. Shapiro '36 took his play "So Proudly We Hail" to a New York producer. Last Tuesday he saw it open on Broadway...
...Shapiro, who listed his intended vocation in the Album as playwright, wrote under the pseudonym of Joseph M. Viertel. He is 21 years old and prepared for Harvard at Staunton Military Academy, where perhaps he gathered the background for his work...
...HERITAGE OF THE BOUNTY-Harry L. Shapiro-Simon & Schuster ($3). Anthropologist Shapiro, who went to Pitcairn Island to find out how heredity worked out in an isolated community whose ancestors are all known (TIME, March 11, 1935), makes his report...
Robert Rubin Shapiro...