Word: andersons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Disraeli," of the same nature enjoyed, and still enjoy a certain popularity. But these two were written by men who knew both history and the stage. Dramatic effects were deftly and delicately manipulated in order to lend strength and verisimilitude to what were otherwise essentially elementary plots. Maxwell Anderson, on the other hand, possesses a wavering knowledge of the facts and is a bit heavy handed in his construction. What might have been fine melodrama soon resolves itself into rather tawdry emotionalism...
...play in three acts by Maxwell Anderson, now being presented by the Theatre Guild, Inc., of New York at the Colonial Theatre, with the following cast: Elizabeth Lynn Fontanne Lord Essex Alfred Lunt Francis Bacon Morris Carnovsky Lord Burghley Edward Fielding and others...
...Anderson should have had a care to his language. It is the speech of the twentieth century, as a rule, save for the profanity which is bandied about with the true crudity of the period. This may be an unimportant factor, but it is all one with the general tone of the production...
...sincere desire to know the drama and romance of the reign of Elizabeth I advise him to spend the two dollars on Froude's volume about the Queen. A college room is certainly more restful than the Colonial and the details of Froude more authentic than those of Mr. Anderson. Anyone not possessing that sincere desire had better...
...Tennis Champion John Hope Doeg last month (TIME, Feb. 9); of heart disease; in Newark. A liberal, non-partisan journalist who built up his paper's influence by the force of his own personality, he was a relic of journalism's "old school": Whitelaw Reid, Charles Anderson Dana, Joseph Pulitzer, Henry Watterson, James Gordon Bennett...