Word: anderson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Clad in only a thin bathing suit, Eells walked over the bridge to the Weld Boathouse and, to the utter amazement of crew officials there, plunged right in. A delighted crowd of several hundred students greeted him on the other bank, while the Larz Anderson Bridge was jammed with automobiles of other spectators...
...Sherwood Anderson, author of Dark Laughter, collects news from Coon Hollow, Spratts Creek, Troutdale, Marion and many another Virginian village, prints it in two weekly newssheets. When he bought the Smyth County News and the Marion Democrat (combined circulation, 5,000) he explained to whom it might concern: 'I am doing it primarily to make a living. My books have never sold." Last week Editor & Publisher Anderson confided to readers of the Democrat: "The trouble with us is that we have to write the whole paper, and make our living nights. You can't make money and have...
...touring car, containing W. L. Shaney, his wife Esther, and fouryear old daughter Alleen, running eastward along Memorial Drive, at 1.15 o'clock yesterday afternoon, suddenly, with no apparent cause, plunged into eight feet of water in the Charles River just west of Anderson Bridge. Only the top of the car was left in sight...
George Kelly is not the kind of dramatist one reads, except as a way to remember Judith Anderson in the part of Tony. But only when one reads him does realization come of the tremendous dependence that Kelly places on his leading ladies to make the feminine small talk "go". The small talk of George Kelly is more real than it has a right to be, and therefore more footling than ever the wasted words of life when entrusted to the hands of poor actors...
Miss Judith Anderson in the leading and pathological role has a certain charm which offsets in part irritating elements in her handling of the part. At best she would have a difficult task, and Mr. Kelly has given her none too adequate help. In the last act she is effective in a Shelley-like conception of the waning moon when...