Word: atkinson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brooks Atkinson, amateur ornithologist, part-time farmer and dean of Manhattan's drama critics, it was the big show or nothing. Ever since Pearl Harbor he had been restless and unhappy. He got to the point where he could hardly write of Broadway's make-believe while there was real drama in the theaters of war. When he tried to enlist in the Navy his employers at the New York Times at last saw the light. All right, they said, if you must go somewhere, you might as well...
Diana wanted to act. She studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She got a part in the road production of Outward Bound. Diana first hit Broadway in The Romantic Mr. Dickens, moving the Times's Brooks Atkinson to declare that she was the one bit of meat which made that turkey worth sitting down...
...worst season in 20 years," wrote Brooks Atkinson of the New York Times; George Jean Nathan couldn't remember as bad a one in 35. Neither the Pulitzer Committee nor the New York Drama Critics' Circle bothered to make its annual award. Variety announced that of 66 new shows only six were hits. No Broadway season was ever buried with fewer flowers or less oratory than...
Warmest defenders of The Moon are Novelist Pearl Buck, Drama Critic Brooks Atkinson, Dorothy Thompson, Book Reviewer Lewis Gannett. Gannett called the "totalitarian crusade" against the story "a depressing example of wartime hysteria." Said Dorothy Thompson: "I know dozens of German officers who were thoroughly mature when last I enjoyed friendly relations with them, and they were just like [Colonel Lanser].... The enormous power in Mr. Steinbeck's drama is that it is not an attack on Nazis. It is an attack on Naziism." Meanwhile The Moon is Down is doing quite nicely. As a novel, it has sold...
...deliver a one minute address concerning Harvard's role in the war effort. His speech was recorded yesterday through the facilities of the Harvard Film Service, since the President's previous commitments would not permit him to be present at today's 5 o'clock broadcast. Colonel John B. Atkinson, City Manager of Cambridge, will also speak, as the representative of this city, to tell the citizens of the original Cambridge that "we in this country appreciate their sacrifice...