Mister Roberts is aboard a US cargo ship, working in the Pacific during the Second World War. He'd do anything to leave the quiet of the ship to join in the "action". Trouble is, the captain of ...

The Kennedy Center's six-month festival of arts from the 1940s includes a most satisfying production of Thomas Heggen and Joshua Logan's "Mr. Roberts," which has docked at the Eisenhower Theater ...

Don House, of Chicago, Ill., son of Lenox Selectman and retired Navy Capt. Charles F. House of Walker Street, served on the same ship during World War II as the late Thomas Heggen. After the war, ...