Word: drama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Mason Brown '23, drama critic of the New York Post and Winthrop Ames Lecturer at Harvard this spring, will give courses in the history of the modern theatre, and on the theatre as seen by its critics...
Among the new courses are several in the field of the history, art and practice of the drama; several special courses in English and American literature; courses in the effect of climate on man; a course in regional planning; studies of Latin American government and economic policies; a course in evolution of the materials of music; and a study of the psychology of literature...
...original play by Robert Buckner and Walter Hart was a powerfully realistic portrayal of several interesting characters, whose development saved the drama from its unoriginality of plot. In the screen version, much of the realism remains, strongly bolstered by a good performance by Miles Mander, the father. Strictures of the Hays office have toned it down to a certain extent, but this is not its principal fault. Failure lies in the dialogue, which is often incredibly dull and obvious, and in the mediocrity of acting by Joel McCrea, Queenie Vassar (the grandmother), and Marjorie Rambeau (the mother). Ginger Rogers does...
Many of the little tricks of the French movies, photomontage and queer camera angles, have been abandoned by Hollywood. But there is something refreshing in a technique which plays romantic drama against a landscape of dreams and by emphasizing facial close-ups rather than sweeping panoramas, "Kreutzer Sonata" makes simplicity a virtue. March of Time's famous study of American Youth and a backstage view of the Paris Ballet complete the program...
Pulitzer Prizes for 1940 were awarded to: Dirt-Novelist John Steinbeck for his Okie novel, The Grapes of Wrath; Playwright William Saroyan (who said he didn't want the prize) for The Time of Your Life, which last week also captured the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award; Historian Carl Sandburg, for Abraham Lincoln: The War Years; Biographer Ray Stannard Baker, for Woodrow Wilson-Life and Letters (Vols. 7, 8); Poet Mark Van Doren, for Collected Poems; Correspondent Otto D. Tolischus, for his dispatches to the New York Times from Berlin.* Other journalism citations: Baltimore Sun Cartoonist Edmund...