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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...
...theatre; only Eugene O'Neill in drama and George S. Kaufman in comedy rate higher. Four of the five have won the Pulitzer Prize: Howard for They Knew What They Wanted (1925), Rice for Street Scene (1929), Anderson for Both Your Houses (1933), Sherwood for Idiot's Delight...
...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...