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Play. To Novelist Thornton Niven Wilder for Our Town (TIME, Feb. 14), his second Pulitzer Prize (first awarded for The Bridge of San Luis...
Raymond Sprigle of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette won the award for distinguished reporting with his series exposing the one-time membership of Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black in the Ku Klux Klan. For his Broadway success, "Our Town," the dramatic prize went to Thornton Wilder...
...they chose as best American play Maxwell Anderson's Winterset, for 1936-37 Anderson's High Tor. Meeting this week, the New York Drama Critics' Circle awarded their 1937-38 plaque to John Steinbeck's Of Mice & Men (TIME, Dec. 6), chose Thornton Wilder's Our Town as runner-up, singled out Irish Playwright Paul Vincent Carroll's Shadow and Substance as the season's best foreign play...
...challenged Eleanor Roosevelt's dramatic criticism in general. He relished her description of Paul Vincent Carroll's Shadow and Substance (TIME, Feb. 7) as "whimsical and charming." He caught her misnaming the Federal Theatre's ". . . one-third of a nation." He used her confession that Thornton Wilder's Our Town (TIME, Feb. 14) had "depressed her beyond words," as a way of begging the White House to back good plays "to the last typewriter in the family...