Word: andersons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Varsity race will be run over the same four mile course as last year, starting on the Cambridge side of the Charles above the Lars Anderson Bridge, across the next bridge upstream, and down the other side, finishing in front of Newhall Boat House...
Winterset (by Maxwell Anderson: Guthne McClintic, producer). Playwright Anderson makes a practice of reworking old themes. His notion that a nation deserves the Government it gets was put to prose in Both Your Houses which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1933; put to poetry in Valley Forge, which won him a critical A for Effort. In 1928 Playwright Anderson became agitated about the Sacco-Vanzetti case, collaborated with Harold Hickerson on an indignant defense of the accused called Gods of the Lightning. With that celebrated cause still in mind, Mr. Anderson has now fashioned Winterset...
...game toward an artistic rubber for Winterset the moment the curtain rises. Up from the shadowy dead-end of a Manhattan slum street rises a pylon of Brooklyn Bridge, the span sweeping out of sight high overhead with a sparse twinkle of lights. Beneath this dark serenity Playwright Anderson's people go furtively about their sinister business. With classic disregard for the laws of probability, almost everyone concerned in a 15-year-old payroll robbery for which a celebrated radical was wrongly executed, come together. There is Trock, the consumptive killer who engineered the crime, just out of prison...
Playwright Anderson, whose simple maxim is that "somebody must write verse plays," has clothed his piece intentionally as well as unintentionally in an uneven variety of poetic fabric. Much of the common street speech of his criminals and vagrants is good stout tow-sacking. Much of the overlong excursion into the philosophy of justice, to judge by audience reaction, is tiresome shoddy. But pure chamfered silk, most observers agreed, were the tender, spontaneous love passages between Mio and Miriamne (Margo), Garth's mercurial younger sister, a curious and strangely apposite East Side Juliet...
Critical laurels by the bushel went to tense young Actor Meredith and his partner Margo, whom Filmen Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur retrieved from a Manhattan cabaret last year for their Crime Without Passion. For his many scenes of undoubted power and beauty, Playwright Anderson was credited with having at least provided a theatrical experience not to be missed by those who take the U. S. Theatre seriously...