Word: andersons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Maxwell Anderson believes "with Geethe that dramatic poetry is man's greatest achievement on his earth so far" and that "the theatre is essentially a cathedral of the spirit" and whatever one's opinion of these postulates may be, it must be admitted that they are noble concepts. In predicating his "Winterset" upon these premises Mr. Anderson has set himself a task of heroic proportions. He has attempted to build a play of fundamentally modern themes and modern personages upon the foundation of epic structure and to articulate these characters through the trying medium of verse. To an extent...
Under almost any circumstances this would be a story of unusual dramatic power but Mr. Anderson has sought to make his contribution to the theatre by framing it in what he calls verse but which might more aptly be characterized as cadenced prose. Reactions to this device have been various and it is impossible from this example to judge of the possibilities of the verse technique in the modern drama. The verse of "Winterset" is not outstanding verse; its images are tired and unsatisfactorily Biblical. Mr. Anderson has attempted the epic and if he has fallen short of his goal...
...Fifty Grand," a musical comedy by Graham Maclond '32, will be presented by the Pi Eta Club under the direction of Paul Anderson in their clubhouse on March 20 at 8:15 o'clock...
...Grieved were Massachusetts FTP officials last week when the selectmen of Plymouth banned a FTP performance of Maxwell Anderson's Valley Forge because the play's language was "obscene" and because the play's actors were "hams." FTP deleted offending passages, pushed the show on through its State tour...
...Chicago, whither, after spurning college and joining a road-show as an acrobat, he went intending to be a violinist, turned newshawk instead. A vehement, ironic and imaginative talker, a writer of the generously promissory sort, he was taken seriously enough by the longhaired to be printed in Margaret Anderson's late Little Review. A collaborator of parts, he wrote several plays with Maxwell Bodenheim, then quarrelled with him resoundingly. In Charles MacArthur he found his perfect complement: together they produced the 1928 smash...