Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 19, 1932

In Manhattan last week the theatre celebrated the season's first busy week. Of four new shows, the most pressagented, most discussed, was

Here Today. Good friend of Authoress Dorothy Parker is her publisher, George Oppenheimer (The Viking Press). Deciding to write a play, Publisher Oppenheimer wondered what would happen if a person whose life is devoted to being brilliant were thrown into a houseful of Boston socialites. His answer is highly amusing to almost everyone but the socialites. Mary Hilliard (Ruth Gordon) is bizarre, witty, peripatetic, alcoholic. When they get drunk she...

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