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Youngest Producer

December 1940
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Youngest Producer
December 1940

Harold J. Kennedy '35, who is one of the sponsors of Ruth Chatterton's return to her first love, the theatre, this fall has wrested the title of Broadway's youngest producer from Orson Welles, according to reports. Theatrical publicity, acting and play writing conditioned Kennedy for producing. Incidentally, one of his appearances as an actor was in his rival's modern version of "Julius Caesar," the bare-stage, modern-dress production which first started that young man skyrocketing to fame. Eight of Kennedy's one-act plays are popular fare in little theatres throughout the country.

Under his wing, Miss Chatterton opened a tour as Eliza Doolittle, the whimsical flower girl heroine of George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion" in Princeton, N. J., late in October.