Word: andersons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Star-Wagon (by Maxwell Anderson; Guthrie McClintic, producer). In the preface to his verse tragedy Winterset, Playwright Anderson announced his abiding belief in poetry for the stage, but prophesied that it would triumph only when "an age of reason will be followed by an age of faith in things unseen." The Star-Wagon makes at least as much claim: upon ''things unseen" as the ghostly Dutchmen for last season's High Tor, but observers, who found his last four plays marred by turgid dialog and prose which often bore only the typographical mask of verse, welcomed Playwright...
First serious offering of the season, the play must be bracketed with Anderson's second best oblations. The Star-Wagon lacks Playwright Anderson's customary magnitude, is bathed in a questionable, tepid philosophy, bumps to a bromidic finale. Reminiscent of sundry other tinkerings with the past (Berkeley Square, Dear Brutus, Merrily We Roll Along, If, One Sunday Afternoon, et al.), it has slight claim to originality...
Forty-one runners doffed their sweat clothes on the Eliot House side of the Anderson Bridge at 3:30 o'clock for the beginning of the race. In the chill fall wind that swept across the river the competitors were sent off in six groups, with the first five having time advantages over the last of six minutes, forty seconds, three minutes, fifty seconds, two minutes, fifty seconds, two minutes, ten seconds, and one minute and fifty seconds respectively...
...those who like a virtuoso series, the office of Aaron Richmond is offering five concerts throughout the winter featuring Flagstad, the Philadelphia Orchestra, Shan-Kar, Marian Anderson, and the Don Cossateks. The group is certainly remarkable, and inquiries may be directed to Mr. Richmond at 12 Huntington Avenue in Boston...
...made until the group has been put under the test, and the test comes Friday for those that are prepared. Jaakko every fall at the outset of the cross country season holds a University Cross Country Handicap Meet over the course which starts at the College side of Anderson Bridge, runs along the river to the Watertown bridge and follows up the other side of the river to the Field House...