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Maxwell Anderson's tragedy "Winterset" will be the Harvard Dramatic Club's major spring production, President Charles Mansfield '48 announced Wednesday night. Casting will being early next week and the finished presentation will be produced early...
...Winterset" Anderson protests the criminally negligent handling of the Sacce-Vanzetti trial. Mio Romangna, presumably the son of Vanzetti, attempts to discover the culprit in a murder for which his father was executed; on meeting the sentencing judge he completely besis him in what is almost a re-trial, but his discovery of the killer results in his own destruction. Often considered one of Anderson's finest works, "Winterset" was produced as a movie...
...Mell-zeener) completed his 150th Broadway assignment. Since he first caught the public's eye in 1924 with his sets for The Guardsman, he has designed such varied productions as Strange Interlude, Street Scene, The Barretts of Wimpole Street, the Katharine Cornell Romeo and Juliet, the Gielgud Hamlet, Winterset, Watch on the Rhine, The Glass Menagerie, Carousel. Most theatergoers today, asked to name a stage designer, and most producers out to hire one, would think first of Mielziner...
Other scheduled productions include "The Passionate Congressman," starting June 25; "My Sister Eileen," with Libby Holman, on July 2, "Winterset," featuring Vera Zorina, on July 9, and "Alice in Wonderland," beginning July...
...Bennett, 71, famed actor, father of Barbara, Constance and Joan; after long illness; in Los Angeles. Indiana-born descendant of a line of Methodist preachers, he was brilliant in many hits (Barrie's What Every Woman Knows, Howard's They Knew What They Wanted, Anderson's Winterset). Like his good friend the late John Barrymore, he was a notorious eccentric (his alleged favorite sport: frightening Boy Scouts). He characterized himself as "an honest actor within my limits, counterfeiting as conscientiously as I know how the spurious creatures of the drama...