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...Star-Wagon (by Maxwell Anderson; Guthrie McClintic, producer). In the preface to his verse tragedy Winterset, Playwright Anderson announced his abiding belief in poetry for the stage, but prophesied that it would triumph only when "an age of reason will be followed by an age of faith in things unseen." The Star-Wagon makes at least as much claim: upon ''things unseen" as the ghostly Dutchmen for last season's High Tor, but observers, who found his last four plays marred by turgid dialog and prose which often bore only the typographical mask of verse, welcomed Playwright...
...Playwright Anderson's 20th play is pleasantly ingenious, its principal characterizations warmly human, its early 20th Century episodes (reminiscent of Ah, Wilderness, Eugene O'Neill's better realized, if less ambitious, comedy) highly entertaining. Director McClintic's staging of an automobile ride, choir rehearsal and picnic in the year 1902 makes the second act a riot of Americana. Burgess Meredith proves himself the most accomplished of young U. S. actors, neatly running the gamut of middle age and youth, inspired duffer and embittered worldling. As the inventor's crony, Russell Collins (The Group Theatre...
...into the $380,000,000 Mellon National Bank. In the next 40-some years, Andrew Mellon multiplied the Mellon capital of $1,000,000 or so by hundreds, built up half a dozen major U. S. industries including the Aluminum Company of America, Koppers, Gulf Oil Corp. of Pa., McClintic Marshall Corp. (bridges...
High Tor (by Maxwell Anderson; Guthrie McClintic, producer). Playwright Anderson went as far away in time and space as 16th Century England to set the scene of his two best known works, Elizabeth the Queen and Mary of Scotland. Period of High Tor, his first verse comedy, is largely contemporary. Locale is just three miles down South Mountain Road from Maxwell Anderson's home near New City...
...purple prolixity wished he might comb the abundant and unruly skeins of his verse a bit more carefully instead of trying to turn out two or three masterpieces a year. Promised within the next month are his High Tor, to be presented by Actress Cornell's husband, Guthrie McClintic, and The Masque of Kings, to be produced by the Theatre Guild...