Word: dramas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dinner was followed by a drama by John Fletcher (c.1611) entitled "The Woman's Prize, or, The Tamer Tamed," termed in the program as "a rough merry farce of a more boisterous...
...interested in stimulating radio criticism. "Today we have as a matter of course criticism of music, literature, drama; why should we not have radio criticism?" he asks. "People should be asking how radio is serving them; what issues are being treated, and how; whether the ideas they are being fed are those of vested interests; and whether the quality of their entertainment cannot be vastly improved...
...Manhattan, where 15,000 Finns live in close-packed Harlem, Representative Bruce Barton spoke to 1,500 Finns at the 22nd anniversary of Finnish independence: "In the endless drama of the universe, Finland has an indestructible part. The Finnish people can be attacked, but they cannot be conquered...
...plot for this drama might well have been concocted by Heinrich Himmler in one of his duller moments; the scenery could have been done by Painter Adolf Hitler suddenly turned Cubist; the dialogue could have been written by a slightly tipsy Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels. All in all, the Russian act that led up to its invasion of Finland last week was a weird parody, rather than a Slavish plagiarism, of Nazi methods...
Despite its grim situations, Key Largo is not realistic drama but a philosophical sweatbox giving the third degree to a question that has agitated every mind from Shakespeare's to the corner grocer's: Is life a mere vicious muddle, or are there things worth dying for? Unfortunately it is a problem not to be solved by all the logarithms of philosophy, but by the simple arithmetic of each individual heart. Anderson is determined to use logarithms. His people look inward, outward, up, down, in prose, in verse, in gestures, in glances, until every word they utter appears...