Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 25, 1937

Howdy Stranger (by Robert Sloane & Louis Pelletier Jr.; Theodore J. Hammerstein, Denis Du-For and Robert Goldstein, producers) presents Frank Parker, a radio singer with an amiable voice which seems to have accustomed itself to a microphone. The story deals with a cowboy songster who was born in Flatbush but poses as a genuine product of Wyoming. When his nativity is called in question, he is required to prove himself by riding a horse at a rodeo. Having a psychopathic fear of animals, he is able to pass this test only with...

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