Word: anderson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paul Y. Anderson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Pulitzer paper), did the best reporting (oil scandals aftermath)-$1,000 cash...
Subtler but just as resonant as the ballyhooing of the late Phineas Taylor Barnum was the publicity which preceded, last week, the public auction of two Renaissance paintings from the collection of Carl W. Hamilton of Manhattan. The two pictures were hung in a shadowy chamber in the Anderson Galleries. Tall candles gave an air of piety to the occasion. Uniformed Negroes stood gravely beside each canvas, so immobile, so harmonious with the austere gloom, that they were nearly invisible. Visitors hushed their voices, lightened their footsteps...
Saturday's Children (First National). The marriage, parting and reunion of Maxwell Anderson's hero and heroine?one of the best of all U. S. plays?becomes heavy and slow in this partly-vocal photograph directed with sincerity but without much vitality by Gregory La Cava. Corinne Griffith's voice, heard for the first time, is nasal, unattractive, but somehow memorable. Best shot: Miss Griffith getting her sweetheart to marry...
With increasing satisfaction Marion, Va., realizes that Sherwood Anderson is no longer the sinister, black-haired hobo whose face the advertisements used to show marked by unspeakable passions, by furrows and pouches suggesting unmentionable artistic orgies. Sherwood Anderson has become a plump, benign, grey-haired citizen, radiating goodwill. Unlike Sinclair Lewis, baiter of smalltownsmen, Sherwood Anderson has said: "I like people just as they are. I do not want to change...
...Hello Towns! Editor Anderson has collected editorials and news stories from his two weeklies, pitched them together with a few running comments, and produced the book-a-year which his enterprising Manhattan publisher demands. Some of the news stories are less news than story and are the more pleasing to an articulate citizen of Marion: "As for town and county news, we have usually heard it at the post office or drug-store two or three days before the Marion Democrat comes out. That, of course, adds to interest in the Democrat, as everybody wants to see how the thing...