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...movie scenarist or a dramatist makes the transition to TV more easily than a radio writer...
...Veteran Dramatist Maxwell Anderson, who once took an ad to call critics "a sort of Jukes family of journalism." Even this season, when his Anne of the Thousand Days (TIME, Dec. 20) set critics to reaching for their superlatives, Anderson was not mollified. With fellow members of the Playwrights' Company and Co-Producer Leland Hayward, Anderson decided to put the critics in their place by not taking any display ads nor quoting a word of their praise...
...Anne's case, history itself proved a rattling good dramatist, and Anderson has certainly not played down the original script. Anne of the Thousand Days has scenes of spitting, highbusted theater, and a good many moments-early rather than late-when it is about equally fustian and fun. It is full of twists and contrasts-of Anne's hate turning to liking as Henry's liking turns to hate; of Henry's determination to have a son for the throne and Anne's determination to have a throne for her daughter (Elizabeth...
Winston Churchill's The Gathering Storm was the first dramatic volume of what promises to be a great history of the war and Churchill's stewardship. Best of such U.S. books was Dramatist Robert Sherwood's Roosevelt and Hopkins, perhaps too worshipful of both men, but the clearest view yet of the war at the Roosevelt-Churchill-Stalin level. Overshadowed by these two, but important for the record, were The Memoirs of Cordell Hull and Henry L. Stimson's On Active Service in Peace...
...throughout the war, and how he met them; 2) an informed, balanced and simultaneous view of the U.S., British and Russian positions as events created and altered them; 3) a thoroughly documented look at the Big Three (F.D.R., Churchill, Stalin) in action, from the vantage point of an expert dramatist who was often on the scene he describes...