Word: atkinson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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University fellowships to Roger E. V. Anderson, Sarnia, Canada, to Eugene P. Boardman, Ft. Atkinson, Wis., to John L. Chase, Tully, N. Y. to James F. J. Gillen, Madison, Wis, to John A. Hogan, Seattle, Wash, to Wilbur F. Murrs, Cambridge, to Herbert R. Northrup, Irvington, N. J. and to Jospeh Shister, Montreal, Canada...
...play which stirred New York audiences for over a year has been described by Brooks Atkinson of the New York Times as "the best music drama of recent years because it was modern and realistic in every fibre of the music and story...
Slight, bespectacled Brooks Atkinson (Times), a reserved, dryly humorous Yankee who writes books on travel and Thoreau. As the Times's critic, he has by far the greatest single influence on box office. Cultivated, impishly able to carve a "turkey" with the best of them, he is now & then a sucker for high-toned emptiness, sometimes recoils from the sweaty and disagreeable. His perfect dish: Our Town...
When Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest was revived on Broadway fortnight ago, New York Times Critic Brooks Atkinson reviewed it as though it were a new play, wound up by suggesting that Wilde showed promise. So many readers have telephoned in to correct Atkinson's "mistake" that the Times editorially made clear that he was spoofing...
Last week, with the reverberations of Orson Welles's radio riot still ringing in everyone's ears, Atkinson reviewed the Orson Welles-directed, Danton's Death (see col. 2). His review concluded: "(Ladies and gentlemen, you have just been reading a review of a performance of 'Danton's Death' at the Mercury Theatre last evening. It is a play of imagination based on history. There is no occasion for alarm...