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...students, New Jersey high-school children and boys' club members were assembled in Manhattan's Seventh Regiment Armory. In five minutes they would begin to enact the most ambitious radio play ever attempted in the U. S., The Fall of the City. Pulitzer Prize Poet Archibald MacLeish (Conquistador, Frescoes for Mr. Rockefeller's City, Panic) had written it. Director Irving Reis of Columbia's Workshop of the Air had persuaded Orson Welles, one of the country's ablest classical actors, to take the leading role and that morning Burgess Meredith (High Tor, Winterset), the most...
...Elizabethan days every dramatist was a poet, every playgoer a poetry lover. But nowadays poets generally leave their Muse behind when they go to town. To most moderns, poetic drama means selfconscious, little-theatre stuff-&-nonsense. Ambitious Poet Archibald MacLeish (Conquistador), seeing no good reason for the modern notion that Poetry is by nature a bad actor, has tried his hand at a verse-play. His first attempt. Panic, took him 16 months to write.* Playgoing readers will find it an exciting experiment, will hope Author MacLeish's example may attract some others...
...been run for some time, but there are signs that poets may be tuning up their mounts for more than the usual private canter. Critics who hardly raised their eyes at Stephen Vincent Benét's John Brown's Body began to look alive when Archibald MacLeish's Conquistador appeared. Though Poets Brewer, Hill and Stuart will cause little commotion among the critics, to plain readers they will be a further indication that narrative verse is coming back, may be edging toward a real modern epic...
FRESCOES FOR MR. ROCKEFELLER'S CITY - Archibald MacLeish - John Day ($.25). U. S. Poet-of-the-year is Archibald Mac Leish. whose Conquistador (TIME. April 11, 1932) won him this year's Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Like Proseman Ernest Hemingway, Poet MacLeish writes in a masculine style of quiet violence: his sparsely punctuated assonant verse often sounds as if it were spoken out of the cor ner of his mouth. That the greatest U. S. captains are not industrial, in Poet Mac-Leish's opinion, is indicated by his title. The six poems in Frescoes...
...Houses (TIME, Mar. 13). Best History-to the late Frederick J. Turner, $2,000 for The Significance of Sections in American History. Best Biography-Allan Nevins. $1,000 for Grover Cleveland (TIME, Jan. 2). Best Volume of Verse-Archibald MacLeish of the editorial staff of FORTUNE, $1,000 for Conquistador (TIME, April...