Word: anderson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mark (by Maxwell Anderson; produced by The Playwrights' Company) is the first successful U.S. war play. Its artistic qualities are debatable, but it is vivid theater, beautifully staged by Director Lem Ward (Uncle Harry, Brooklyn, U.S.A.), and the story it tells, unvarnished in its simplicity, is unbeatable in its appeal. Of late years the flossiest of playwrights, Maxwell Anderson in The Eve of St. Mark has contrived no elaborate plot, essayed no vaulting rhetoric, embraced no queer philosophy. He does not have to. While other playwrights have floundered or gone too far afield to dramatize...
...nephew, Sergeant Lee Chambers, "one of the first to go, one of the first to die that we may keep this earth for free men." It is the thought of some other or possible Sergeant Chambers in every spectator's mind that accentuates the poignancy of Maxwell Anderson's drama. Its moment in history transfigures it, restoring to subjects like young love, maternal pride, the sense of home, the heroism of war some of the luster that oceans of hokum have washed away. All the same Playwright Anderson has frequently brought to his story something as warm with...
Though the play recaptures Anderson's old simple virtues, it reveals some of his ingrained faults. He has resisted for the nonce his usual high-flown poetizing, or at any rate put it to half-comic use by letting an absurd Southern private spout Byron, Keats, Arnold, T. S. Eliot. But Anderson is sometimes wordy even in prose. Now and then he overworks his pathos. He throws in a jarring dream sequence. "His taste sometimes falters. Fortunately his theme, like a horse more astute than its rider, saves him from ever getting too far off the road...
Tackle Nick Daukas is the star of the Dartmouth front wall. Six feet, three inches tall, weighing 215, Daukas saw little action last fall, but he will be very much in evidence on Saturday. The other tackle, Lee Anderson, was shifted from guard this fall because his speed of foot hindered his play at that slot. If he is more at home at tackle, there may be trouble...
Team A: le, Barnes, lt, Hibbard; lg, Gudaitis; c, Andersen; rg, Kamp; rt, Stannard; re, Cummings; qb, Anderson; wb, Wilson; tb, L. Flynn; fb, Perkins...