Word: sherwoods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Broadway producers got their worst smack in the face in years. Five major playwrights-Maxwell Anderson, Robert E. Sherwood, S. N. Behrman, Sidney Howard, Elmer Rice-curtly announced that they were going into business for themselves, as a group...
Although the announcement was made before the new group had even chosen a name, its working plans were fairly definite. Each man has promised a new play for next season. (First production will be a play about Abraham Lincoln by Sherwood.) Each is pledged to put $10,000 into a common fund. Each will get regulation stage and movie royalties, share the general profit & loss of production...
...brief cultural flowering of Chicago before and during the War may seem to historians a matter of genuine literary significance. Now it looks like a forced, half-artificial, overenthusiastic affair that was principally important because it gave audiences to Carl Sandburg, Edgar Lee Masters, Vachel Lindsay and Sherwood Anderson, and because it produced the magazine, Poetry...
...ushers are Sherwood Rollins, Lawrence W. Jones, Edward Allis, William Browning, Lemmel Barrister, Phillip Thayer, Roger Schafer, Richard Fellows, Joseph Lyford, George Haydock, Lee Marx, David Henry, Arthur Bartlott, James E. Newton, and Charles Stern...
...dismissal spread through the college, indignant students quickly rounded up the band, paraded around the campus, were addressed at a rally by Dr. Ganong, who declared the college officials had given him no opportunity to defend himself. By dawn the 350 students had decided to strike. When Dean Sherwood Gates arrived at Bowen Hall he was turned back by pickets who barred the door to students and professors...