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Introduction to Two Blind Mice, Theatre Arts remarks that,
"... while not "brilliant, it proved that its authors owned
a rare talent for comcdy.The Spewacks in Clear All Wires
had combined their knowledge of journalism and foreign policy
as an Impetus to give then their first success.
After writing Spring Song in 193^. the Spewacks spent
considerable time in Hollywood writing scenarios. Prom this
experience came what Theatre Arts calls "... the most hi-
arious satire ever written about Hollywood,"7 Boy Meets Girl,
in 1935• Burns Mantle states that it n. . . took Broadway by
storm."® Opening in November, 1935« it closed after some 669
performances at the end of the 1936-1937 season.
Following the success of this play the Spewacks had "made
the big time," so to speak. Such screenplays as The Cat and
the Piddle, My Favorite Wife, and Weekend at the Waldorf are
now their credits.
Leave It to Me with Cole Porter's music in 1938 was their
next success. One of the theatre's most delightful actresses,
Mary Martin, made her debut in this production.
Miss Swan Expects in 1939 was a failure and the Spewacks
postponed writing for the New York theatre and turned to
writing for the theatre of war. World War II was on. The
year 19^1 found Samuel Spewack in England as a war correspon-
dent for Look and the New York Evening Post. Theatre Arts
6Ibid. 7Ibid.
®Kantle, op. olt. p. 231.
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Long, Jerry Lyndon. An Analysis and Production Book for a Staging of Samuel Spewack's Under the Sycamore Tree, thesis, August 1967; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc163912/m1/18/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .