Word: twentieths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Equally funny is a revival of Hecht and MacArthur's Twentieth Century, starring Jose Ferrer and Gloria Swanson. (Fulton...
...Twentieth Century (by Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur, based on a play by Bruce Milholland) turned up, after nearly 20 years, as a pleasant Christmas surprise. Its revival also seemed a sort of desperate remedy. It is as near to rich, round entertainment as the American National Theater and Academy has come. It is also about as far from what ANTA should be doing as so high-purposed an organization could go. Twentieth Century is a brazenly commercial farce, made into a sure thing with Jose Ferrer's sturdy reputation and Gloria Swanson's sudden new fame...
King Lear, with Louis Calhern in the lead role, opens Chritmas day. One day earlier the ANTA playhouse will follow Judith Anderson with Jose Ferrer and Gloria Swanson in Hecht and MacArthur's Twentieth Century. For those who like Ibsen, and that includes most of the theatre-going public, An Enemy of the People co-stars Frederic March and his wife, Florence Eldridge, in a special adaptation by Arthur Miller...
...this sort of argument a new thing. One of the few defeats that Kaiser Willhelm H of Germany ever suffered before he blundered into the first wolrld war occurred when a board of scientists reversed an imperial dictum proclaiming that the year 1900 was the beginning of the twentieth century. The experts told the Kaiser that he had a year to wait...
From them he moves into a complete consideration of the twentieth century poetic "renaissance," through Amy Lowell and the Imagists, the free-moving Chicago group, the isolated and tragic figures of Hart Crane and Robinson Jeffers, to the culmination of our modern verse in the opposed figures of Robert Frost and T. S. Eliot. In the contradictory excellencies both in form and content of these two poets, Matthiessen characteristically finds an analogy to the confused age in which they write...