Word: andersons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expanded the Washington legend, tried to figure out for themselves what manner of man this liberator was. In Manhattan this week a fine dramatic society, a fine playwright and a fine actor combine to render a new portrait of the Father of His Country. The Theatre Guild presents Maxwell Anderson's Valley Forge, with Philip Merivale as Washington...
...this historic situation, Playwright Anderson, with a free exercise of dramatic license, presents General Washington and his men for five sombre days in January, 1778. Scene I is a bunk house at Valley Forge. A squad of Virginians, starved, half-naked scarecrows with rags on their feet and bits of coonskin on their heads, have been issued their evening meal. It is so crawling vile the wretches spew it out. A pair of long-hunters are about ready to go home when General Washington and his staff stride by, looking for men with whole shoes to go on a foraging...
...Directors John Houseman and Herbert Biberman were up against a particularly difficult task in casting Valley Forge. They had to get actors who looked like Colonial revolutionists instead of a table full of diners at Sardi's theatrical restaurant. And they had to get actors who could speak Playwright Anderson's semi-versified lines with conviction. Stanley Ridges is a particularly happy choice for the character of hard bitten Lucifer Tench. No less happy is the casting of Margalo Gillmore as the full-blown, romantic Mary Philipse. As Washington, Philip Merivale is close to perfect. Mr. Merivale is the greatest...
...last week Anderson Baten had finished writing into his 1,500,000 word Complete Dictionary every last scrap of information about Shakespeare he could lay his hands on. Then he journeyed North to deliver the final section of his bulky manuscript to his publishers, John C. Winston Co. of Philadelphia (Winston Simplified Dictionary). Until he sent them the first part five months ago, they did not know he was writing the Shakespeare dictionary. But last week Lexicographer William Dodge Lewis, editor of the Winston company, was sure that it was "one of the monumental works of all time...
Determination and scholarship are bred in the Baten stock. Anderson's greatgrandfather was hard-driving Colonel Ephraim Williams who founded Williams College. His father was president of struggling little Howard Payne College at Brownwood. Tex. But Anderson Baten describes himself as simply "a corn-fed country boy from Texas who doesn't know whether he's coming or going." His youthful ambition was to be a champion weightlifter. When he was 23 he performed the terrific feat of raising a 250-lb. dumbbell above his head. Satisfied with that, he turned to literature. Before he started reading...