Talk:Maxine Finsterwald

Additional sources

User:Silver seren was kind enough to amswer a request for sources at the Women in Red talkpage with the following:

• Detroit Gets the Credit for Career
• Darkness Settles over City's Rialto for Week
• Obituaries: Elsewhere (Maxine Flora Finsterwald)
• The Theatre and Its People
• Prize-Winning Playwright to Address Writing Club
• Theater Tournament Prize Winner's Dramatization to Be Presented
• Racial Problems Considered In Play "On Whitman Avenue"
• Belfry Players Plan To Present Play At Madison Tournament

They said "There's a whole bunch more to find. Though also a lot of minor mentions to sift through and discard."

These still need to be worked in with cites and content added.. I will do my best unless someone beats me to it! FloridaArmy (talk) 18:23, 15 November 2021 (UTC)

Wellesely

I noticed a lot of articles say she graduated from Wellesely. I believe in tbe interview she gave at Vassar she said she left Wellesely. It is continued on a following page I didn't see so maybe she shw she left there with a great education but I got the impression she didn't finish or graduate from there? FloridaArmy (talk) 03:16, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

The rest of that article is in that sidebar on the left. Though it has somewhat broken English, I assume AI transcription from the image of the paper was involved. Anyways, here's the rest:

"Miss Wood said she transferred from Wellesley, where she acted with the Barnswallows, because she could find a more specialized drama curriculum at Carnegie. There she had an integration of dancing, fencing, history of drama, as well as play production and writing. Her own plays are her life work. She is conscious of the difficult situation of concentrated theaters and wary producers in this country today, and warns all aspiring playwrights that it is the most discouraging business in the world. She feels that Broadway will have an interesting season this winter, but adds that none of the new plays are by new writers. It is all or nothing for a playwright, says Miss Wood, and you can't count on it for a living without complete success. Work in Radio However she has not confined herself to writing for the theater. In the past she has written half hour comedies for the radio, and for a time wrote, directed and acted in a daily radio skit.

Despite the terrific market for commercial writing in radio, most writers do not last very long. Miss Wood is of the opinion that the rapidity demanded makes for loss in the caliber of the writing and chat most radio writers are not satisfied with their work. Recently she has been doing some work on television writing—"a very exciting technique." It differs from radio writing in that it is a combination of theater, radio, and movie*. Straight film technique is inadequate because change of scene cannot be accomplished with the same effortless effect of the final movie production. The television actor has to run back and forth between five different sets, sometimes changing costume as he goes. Mis> Wood is also interested in one-act technique. She enjoys writing short stories between plays. Here again the commercial problem is difficult. The pattern of stories required by commercial magazines do not permit a writer the scope of .lis imagination and creative ability. The Atlantic Monthly has printed several of her character sketches, and last year she had a short story in Seventeen. Real people are what she calls the springboards for her sketches, but she does not confine herself to accurate, factual detail.

Interest in Social Problems Thjc theme of her writing is her interest in man's relation to his environmenl and the social impact oi his experience* upon his personality: A Nigro herself, she is in a key position to study the emotional (actors in the racial problem today. This was the basic material for "On Whitman Avenue," a play which the -'ritics, though not the Mew York public, were enthusiastic about. Her travels are always a source of material for her and she hopes t'o find time for a trip to Mexico this winter. Her extensive reading in the held of Anthropology this summer was motivated by the same interest. She is a person very alive, tuned to the world in which she lives, and intensel} interested in individuals as will as people in a larger sense."

I hope that helps, @FloridaArmy:. Silverseren^C 03:22, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

She was African American? FloridaArmy (talk) 03:41, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

Here's the Findagrave entry for her dad. FloridaArmy (talk) 03:43, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

Seems so. Here's her listed in black artists that were interviewed for a black history cultural project. And her being an African American dramatist is noted in this book. Silverseren^C 03:46, 16 November 2021 (UTC)