Word: sherwoods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reunion in Vienna. Having met with but middling success with his second and third plays, Playwright Robert Emmet Sherwood has gone back to the romance-versus-commonsense theme which he used to considerable success in his first work, The Road to Rome. Laid in Alt Wien, this play has to do with the ex-mistress (Lynn Fontanne) of a gaudy, deposed Habsburg (Alfred Lunt, her husband). After the revolution Actress Fontanne had married an eminent psychoanalyst, tried to forget her royal lover. On the 100th anniversary of Emperor Franz Josef's birth, however, a reunion of dowdy royalty takes...
...weaving is a complicated process with too many operations involved. Present mills are seeing and will see a good many simplifications and combinations of these spinning operations (occurring prior to the spooling & warping mentioned above). You might call attention to the above. Correct it on the part of Sherwood Anderson as he is undoubtedly to blame - I noted the same error in a recent issue of Vanity Fair...
...series of lectures will be given by members of the Board of Governors of the School. Among those to contribute special lectures will be J. Brooks Atkinson '17, John Mason Brown '23, Owen Davis '92, Kenneth MacGowan, 117, Eugene O'Neil, H. T. Parker '89, Gilbert Seldes '14, Robert Sherwood '17, Lee Simonson '08, and Robert Edmond Jones...
...Edgell of the Fine Arts Department, who sometimes goes bicycling in Edwardian shepherd's-plaid knickerbockers. Professor Murdock, son of Boston Banker Harold Murdock, is pleasant, humorless, sometimes a bit too easy to convince. His campus nickname: "Cotton-Top." It is told how a student of his named Sherwood, on the day of an examination, discovered that a lady of the same name (but no relation) had jumped from a window in Manhattan. Student Sherwood clipped the notice, bought a black necktie, went sadly to Professor Murdock. Sympathetic Professor Murdock excused him from the examination...
...Author. Sherwood Anderson, self-made writer, might have been a self-made tycoon. From handicapped beginnings as a poor boy in Camden, Ohio he rose through little schooling and many jobs to be manager of a paint factory. But the problems of industrialism preyed on his mind. One day, halfway through dictating a letter, he blurted out .to his stenographer: "I am walking in the bed of a river," clapped on his hat and walked out. never to return. Through his artist brother, Karl, he met the "Chicago group" of writers (Theodore Dreiser, Ben Hecht, Carl Sandburg...