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 The Richard III and Yorkist History Server
Maxwell Anderson was a poet and a noted critic, as well as a playwright, but it is obvious that poetry was his first love.
Anderson believed passionately that poetry was the proper language for the theater, and that none of the works of even the great modern playwrights could compare with the great verse dramas of the past.
Maxwell Anderson, a member of the Society, and Anderson's literary executors Brandt and Brandt, a reading of the play was given by Stefan Rudnicki, a playwright and chairman of the Theater and Film Department of C. Post College on Long Island, New York, with professional actors and members of the college theater company.
www.r3.org /bookcase/richann1.html   (3806 words)

  
 Bios - Maxwell L. Anderson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Anderson is a trustee of the American Federation of Arts and the Association of Art Museum Directors and Chair of its Professional Issues Committee.
Anderson's commitment to collaboration among museums has led him to work for changes in federal legislation to ensure tax equity for artists, for changes in international conventions and treaties to permit the free circulation of artworks internationally, and for the refinement of regulations to ensure the protection of endangered species.
Anderson is a very active proponent of the value of networked information in education and for the art museum community.
www.loc.gov /bicentennial/bios/preserve/anderson.html   (295 words)

  
 Maxwell Anderson - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
Maxwell Anderson is far better known as a playwright than a composer, but his collaborations with German-born composer Kurt Weill added several classic standards to the popular song lexicon.
Anderson was born in Atlantic, PA, on December 15, 1888.
Anderson and Weill remained on good terms, but it took them quite some time to find another project to work on together; Weill originally wanted Anderson to write lyrics for the play that became +Street Scene, but Anderson, unconvinced of his talent as a lyricist, let the job go to poet Langston Hughes.
www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,671739,00.html   (747 words)

  
 The name of Anderson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Anderson was appointed by the Legislature of the Territory South of the Ohio River with Geo.
Anderson and Rebecca Maxwell in Bristol and that vicinity.
ANDERSON GENEALOGY Compiled by Mary Stewart Blakemore daughter of the late Josiah Anderson Stewart of Chattanooga Tennessee and wife of Major Maurice Neville Blakemore of New York and Richmond Virginia.
anderson.mine.nu /Anderson_geneology/name_of_anderson.htm   (2302 words)

  
 Maxwell School of Syracuse University
Christopher J. Anderson is professor of political science whose interests include political behavior, elections, political economy, political legitimacy and trust, and citizens and the economy in the United States and abroad.
Before joining the Maxwell faculty, he was affiliated with the health care consulting practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers and earlier served as chief executive officer of a hospital, administrator of a nursing home, and executive director of a network of ambulatory care centers.
She is director of the Maxwell program, Integrated Studies in Space and Place, which explores how status, politics, social relations, and cultural meanings are expressed through people’s creation and use of physical space.
www.maxwell.syr.edu /news/expertise/bios.asp   (9451 words)

  
 Interview with Maxwell Anderson
Maxwell L. Anderson, director of the "Whitney Museum of American Art" in New York, has been a leader in applying new technologies to museums.
Anderson spoke recently with Matthew Mirapaul, "arts@large" columnist for "The New York Times on the Web", about Internet-based creative works and the challenges their ever-evolving content, wide accessibility and infinite reproducibility present to the art world's traditional economic model.
Maxwell L. Anderson: While there are many ways to think about the future of technology and the ways in which artists will adapt to its functional possibilities, I'm of the opinion that, at the end of the day, it's going to be hard to justify an economic model that doesn't involve artists and collectors.
www.asci.org /cyberart99/interview.html   (1297 words)

  
 Anderson, Maxwell on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Maxwell catches a break in draft.(Sports)(UO receiver, predicted to be a free agent, is drafted by the 49ers in the seventh round)
David Maxwell Getty Images 09-13-2003 COLUMBUS, OH - SEPTEMBER 13: Defensive Tackle Tim Anderson #54 of the Ohio State Buckeyes sacks quarterback Philip Rivers #17 of the North Carolina State Wolfpack during the third quarter at Ohio Stadium on September 13, 2003 in Columbus, Ohio.
David Maxwell Getty Images 09-04-2004 CLEVELAND, OH - SEPTEMBER 4: Garret Anderson #16 of the Anaheim Angels takes a pitch as he is swarmed by gnats in the fifth inning against the Cleveland Indians on September 4, 2004 at Jacobs Field in Cleveland, Ohio.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/A/AndrsonM1ax.asp   (678 words)

  
 Maxwell Anderson Papers
James Maxwell Anderson was born December 15, 1888, in Atlantic, Pennsylvania, the second child of William Lincoln Anderson and Charlotte Perrimela (Stephenson) Anderson.
Maxwell Anderson graduated from Jamestown High School in 1908, and began attending the University of North Dakota later that year.
In 1958, on the occasion of the 75th Anniversary of the founding of the University of North Dakota, Anderson was conferred a Doctor of Humanities degree.
www.und.edu /dept/library/Collections/og50.html   (969 words)

  
 Anderson Maxwell Engl.
Anderson was the quintessential American playwright, both by upbringing and philosophy.
Anderson apologized and made a curious confession: he could not write unless it was raining.
Anderson also had a populist side, even though he was always preoccupied with inner moral struggles.
www.maurice-abravanel.com /anderson_maxwell_english.html   (1795 words)

  
 The Richard III and Yorkist History Server
Maxwell Anderson was a giant of the twentieth-century American theater, a playwright whose dramas soared on blank verse, exploring the many ways that love can connect across time, across alternate realities, across any of the innumerable gulfs that separate one human spirit from another.
The American Branch's share of the royalties from this publication are being used to establish a new scholarship fund: The Maxwell Anderson Scholarship in Medieval and Renaissance Literature.
The American Branch hopes to be able to award one $500 Maxwell Anderson Scholarship annually in the near future, with any additional contributions being held to build an endowed fund to sustain the program.
www.r3.org /anderson.html   (406 words)

  
 MW98: BIOGRAPHIES
Maxwell L. Anderson joined the Art Gallery of Ontario as its fourth director in September 1995.
Maxwell Anderson, 41, was born and raised in New York City.
Anderson has lectured and published on Roman art, international art law, and interactive technology, and is the author of the introduction to "The Wired Museum" (Washington, D.C., American Association of Museums, 1997).
www.archimuse.com /mw98/bios/anderson.html   (295 words)

  
 Biography for Maxwell Anderson (I)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
James Maxwell Anderson was born in Atlantic, Pennsylvania, on December 15, 1888 to William Lincoln Anderson and Charlotte Perrimela (Stephenson) Anderson.
Anderson won the 1933 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play "Both Your Houses," and repeated as the New York Critics Circle Award winner for "High Tor"; in 1936.
Quentin Anderson (born 1914 in Minnewauken, North Dakota; died 2003), the oldest son of Maxwell Anderson and his wife Margaret, was a professor at Columbia Univiversity from 1939-81.
www.imdb.com /name/nm0027173/bio   (1276 words)

  
 Maxwell Anderson --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
Anderson was educated at the University of North Dakota and Stanford University.
Anderson's prestige was increased by two ambitious historical dramas in verse—Elizabeth the Queen (1930) and Mary of Scotland (1933)—and by a success of a very different nature, his humorous Pulitzer Prize-winning prose satire, Both Your Houses (1933), an attack on venality in the U.S. Congress.
The American playwright Maxwell Anderson believed in the dignity of humankind and the importance of democracy.
www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9007445   (761 words)

  
 Maxie L. Anderson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Anderson’s interest in aviation began many years before the gondola of the "Double Eagle II" set down in a farmer’s field outside Paris, France.
The morning after their recovery, Anderson and Abruzzo began making the plans that culminated with their successful flight in "Double Eagle II." This record-setting Atlantic crossing is only one of Maxie Anderson’s many "firsts" in gas ballooning.
Anderson has received the Explorers’ Club Lowell Thomas Award, the Lindbergh Award, the Diplome Montgolfier presented by the Federation Aeronautique Internationale, and the John Oliver LaGorce Medal from National Geographic.
www.au.af.mil /au/goe/eaglebios/83bios/anders83.htm   (380 words)

  
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Bill Anderson is especially noted as a painter of motion scenes of sports and horses.
Anderson was born in Mankato, Minnesota July 31,1941.
Anderson's painting techniques were featured in an article in "Artist's Sketchbook" magazine in October 2003.
www.askart.com /AskART/artist.aspx?artist=135107&redir   (414 words)

  
 Maxwell Anderson Manuscript   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
He has published numerous literary articles and reviews as well as a critical study of Jessamyn West and a study of Maxwell Anderson's plays.
Maxwell Anderson was a successful American dramatist in the heyday of the American theatre whose career blossomed from 1923 to 1958.
This collection consists of the original typed manuscript, with corrections and notations, and the galleys, for Shivers' book, The Life of Maxwell Anderson, published by Stein and Day in 1983.
libweb.sfasu.edu /etrc/collect/MANSCRPT/PERSONAL/ShiversAlfred/Andersonmain.htm   (126 words)

  
 Collectors Post - MAXWELL ANDERSON Biography
Maxwell Anderson (1888-1959) was a prolific and successful playwright whose career spanned over thirty years.
In 1938, Maxwell Anderson was one of the founding members of the Playwrights' Company.
MARY OF SCOTLAND (by Maxwell Anderson) with Helen Hayes, Philip Merivale & Helen Menken - pre-Broadway
www.collectorspost.com /Actors/maxwell_anderson.html   (304 words)

  
 On the Cusp: Maxwell Anderson, New Director of the Indianapolis Museum of Art
The story has it that Maxwell Anderson has just signed on as the new Director of the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
And with the recent criticizing of this years Whitney Biennial, the New Yorker chimes in on the state of affairs at the Whitney and in part the affect Anderson had on the museum.
Perhaps we can get an idea from a 2005 paper Anderson was commissioned to write for the Getty Leadership Institute titled, 'Metrics of Success in Art Museums'.
on-the-cusp.blogspot.com /2006/03/maxwell-anderson-new-director-of.html   (1919 words)

  
 UVa Library Exhibit: American Theatre
Anderson ushered in the next decade with his blank-verse drama Elizabeth the Queen (1930).
Maxwell Anderson's bent for historical tragedy and verse drama found further creative expression with the coming of World War II.
Maxwell Anderson died in 1959, after more than thirty years of active participation in America's theatre.
www.lib.virginia.edu /small/exhibits/theatre/stage_modern.html   (1694 words)

  
 Maxwell Anderson - People of Pennsylvania
axwell Anderson was born in Atlantic, Pennsylvania on December 15, 1888.
His father was a traveling minister, so the Anderson family moved frequently throughout Maxwell's youth.
Maxwell Anderson continued to dominate the American theater for years.
www.netstate.com /states/peop/people/pa_mwa.htm   (381 words)

  
 Maxwell Anderson Papers (addition)
ACQUISITION: This addition to the Maxwell Anderson Papers was deposited in the Orin G. Libby Manuscript Collection by Larry Hill, Department of Speech and Theater, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina, on August 1, 1989 (Acc.#89-1669).
This addition to the Maxwell Anderson Papers consists of brochures, pamphlets, and twelve video tapes which contain footage from the Maxwell Anderson Theatre and Design Conference held at U.N.D, October 14-16, 1983.
They include three photographs of Maxwell Anderson at the premiere of one of his plays and one photograph of a costume design from The Golden Six (1958).
www.und.nodak.edu /dept/library/Collections/og50c.html   (687 words)

  
 Dakota Datebook
Tomorrow marks the anniversary of the death of playwright Maxwell Anderson, who died in 1959.
Anderson decided it was time to get into a different business – newspaper reporting.
Maxwell Anderson may have lost jobs because of his words; but his words also made him a resounding success.
www.prairiepublic.org /programs/datebook/bydate/04/0204/022704.jsp   (678 words)

  
 Chris Anderson
Christopher J. Anderson, Andre Blais, Shaun Bowler, Todd Donovan, and Ola Listhaug (2005).
Christopher J. Anderson, Silvia Mendes, and Yuliya V. Tverdova (2004).
Christopher J. Anderson is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Maxwell European Union Center.
www.maxwell.syr.edu /psc/faculty/Anderson.asp   (227 words)

  
 Maxwell Anderson Papers (addition)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
ACQUISITION: This addition to the Maxwell Anderson Papers was deposited in the Orin G. Libby Manuscript Collection by Allen Anderson in March 1984 (Acc.#84-1287).
This addition to the Maxwell Anderson Papers consists of one manuscript entitled “White Desert”.
This manuscript has been reassembled by Allan Anderson, Maxwell Anderson's son, in 1984 from several incomplete versions.
www.library.und.edu /Collections/og50b.html   (174 words)

  
 Maxwell Anderson
Born 1888 in Atlantic, PA. He was a graduate of Stanford and worked as editor for The New Republic.
One of the most important American playwrights of the 20th century, Maxwell Anderson won a Pulitzer Prize for Both Your Houses (1933).
His crowning achievement was Winterset (1935), which popularized the use of blank verse in contemporary drama and was the first winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award (1935).
www.actorsbone.com /Library/Authors/AndersonMaxwell.htm   (197 words)

  
 The Broadway Theatre Archive Catalog Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
One of the most important American playwrights of the early 20th century, Maxwell Anderson was born in Atlantic, Pennsylvania, in 1888.
When Anderson wrote his first play, White Desert, he wrote it in verse because he was weary of "plays in prose that never lifted from the ground." The play failed, however, and Anderson temporarily abandoned his dream of bringing tragic poetry to the American stage.
In 1935, Anderson broke his newly discovered rule and composed Winterset, a poetic tragedy based on a true story and set in contemporary America.
www.broadwayarchive.com /bio_detail.asp?name=6&type=1   (464 words)

  
 TIME Magazine Archive Article -- The Eve of Maxwell Anderson -- Aug. 23, 1943   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
In a row of remodeled chicken houses on the country estate of Cinemagnate Adolph Zukor, the North Clarkstown (N.Y.) artists and writers colony has operated the most deluxe civilian-defense "depot" in rural America.
There, one recent night, lofty Playwright Maxwell Anderson dutifully watched for enemy planes, patiently waited for alarms, idly surveyed stocks of tools, food and medicine.Playwright Anderson had just returned from watching the progress of U.S. soldiers in North Africa.
At night's end he wrote in the logbook: "There is no longer the slightest danger of bombing or invasion....
www.time.com /time/archive/printout/0,23657,885020,00.html   (147 words)

  
 Maxwell Anderson — www.greenwood.com
Description: One of the most important American playwrights of the 20th century, Maxwell Anderson won a Pulitzer Prize for Both Your Houses (1933), and New York Drama Critics Circle awards for Winterset (1935) and High Tor (1936).
During a career that spanned more than a quarter century, he wrote 33 plays, many of which were produced in European capitals and were translated into more than a dozen languages.
As a comprehensive guide to Anderson's career, this reference book is an indispensable volume for anyone interested in American drama.
www.greenwood.com /catalog/GR9070.aspx   (272 words)

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