debut in that show. The revue Americana opened at the theater in 1932. This was followed the next year by Gay Divorce, with Fred Astaire and Claire Luce; this was Astaire's last appearance in a Broadway musical. For the next several years, the Shubert hosted a series of straight plays (as opposed to musicals). Among these was Sidney Howard's play Dodsworth, which opened in February 1934 and featured Fay Bainter and Walter Huston; the show took a brief hiatus in mid-1934 and continued for several months afterward. This was followed in 1936 by Robert E. Sherwood's Idiot's Delight, featuring theatrical couple Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. The play, the first show at the Shubert to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, ran for a year. Next was Maxwell Anderson's The Masque of Kings, featuring Dudley Digges, Leo G. Carroll, Henry Hull, and Margo, which opened in 1937 and was a flop. The same year, the Shubert saw the Rodgers and Hart musical Babes in Arms, as well as the Theatre Guild production Amphitryon 38 with Lunt and Fontanne. The Rodgers and Hart musical I Married an Angel opened in 1938, featuring Vera Zorina. The next year, the Theatre Guild hosted the play The Philadelphia Story at the Shubert, featuring Katharine Hepburn; it saved the Guild from bankruptcy and ran for 417 performances. 1940s and 1950s The Shubert Theatre hosted the Rodgers and Hart musical Higher and Higher in 1940, which was one of the partnership's few failures. This was followed the same year by the Guy Bolton musical Hold On to Your Hats, with Al Jolson and Martha Raye. The Shubert then hosted a revival of George Bernard Shaw's play The Doctor's Dilemma in 1941, with Cornell and Raymond Massey. A revival of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The Rivals opened in 1942 with Mary Boland, Bobby Clark, Helen Ford, and Walter Hampden; and the Rodgers and Hart musical By Jupiter launched the same year with Ray Bolger. Subsequently, Margaret Webster's revival of Othello opened in 1943 with José Ferrer, Uta Hagen, and Paul Robeson. The Shubert's productions in 1944 included the play Catherine Was Great with Mae West, as well as Harold Arlen and E. Y. Harburg's musical comedy Bloomer Girl. In January 1947, the Shubert hosted the Victor Herbert musical Sweethearts, featuring Bobby Clark and Marjorie Gateson, for 288 performances. This was followed the same December by a transfer