Word: andersons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Producer McClintic goes the palm for 1936 Shakespearean innovation. He has represented the King's ghost as a spooky silent presence whose voice croaks hollowly from an off-stage microphone. As the Queen, pneumatic Judith Anderson makes good theatrical sense. As wan and woebegone Ophelia, Lillian Gish is Lillian Gish. Jo Mielziner's articulated Hamlet set caused the form-book perusers to recall a similarly successful one by Norman Bel Geddes for Raymond Massey...
...BRANDON-Sherwood Anderson- Scribner...
When Sherwood Anderson published Winesburg, Ohio in 1919 he laid the boundaries of an imaginative world that has occupied him ever since. It is a world such as no other U. S. novelist has presented, a world of small towns and cities that are quiet on the surface, inwardly seething with inarticulate poetic restlessness. Its inhabitants usually seem plausible and matter-of-fact at first acquaintance, but they brood, talk to themselves, take long walks at night, sometimes shout out incoherent poetry, have a tendency to leave wives, homes, business. Naïve, unpredictable, constantly bemused by the world around...
...this period of her life that she meets the young man who wants to be a horse. He has practiced until he can run on all fours and leap fences. As she watches him, Kit wonders if all men want to be horses. Sometimes Kit speaks to Author Anderson. "We howled," Kit tells Author Anderson, "it was such a crazy idea...
With this spinal cord of a narrative to hold it together, Kit Brandon is less diffuse than Sherwood Anderson's earlier novels, and Kit's candid puzzlement lacks the somewhat forced naïveté that weakened Beyond Desire and Dark Laughter. Sometimes the author intrudes with speculations about machinery, forest conservation, unemployment, strikes, the TVA, but his interruptions are brief and often effective. "The reader should bear in mind," he says simply, in describing Kit's marriage, "that Kit Brandon was and is a real person, a living American woman. How much of her real story...