Maxine Finsterwald

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Maxine Finsterwald (1906 - April 7, 1993) wrote radio scripts, plays, short stories, and newspaper features in the United States. She sometimes used the pen name Maxine Wood [1]

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Early life and career

She was born Maxine Flora Finsterwald in Marion, Wisconsin, [1] Mr. and Mrs. Charles Finsterwald were her parents. [2] She grew up in Detroit, Michigan. [3] She studied at Wellesley, Cornell, and Carnegie Institute. [4]

She wrote radio scripts for Kaffee Klatch [5] and Playhouse of the Air before moving to New York City. [3]

Her play Giants in Chains won the Otto H. Kahn prize in 1928. [3] Her play On Whitman Avenue was staged in Buffalo and then on Broadway in 1946. It addressed relations between African Americans and whites. Canada Lee was an actor and a producer for the show and Margo Jones directed. [6]

She was a supporter of a proposed Conference on Civil and Human Rights organized in the wake of jailings of Communist Party organizers in the United States. [7]

Carnegie Mellon University has a collection of papers related to her early career and plays up through 1946. [8] The University of Iowa has a collection of her papers. [3]

She was interviewed December 10, 1974. [9]

Death

She died of congestive heart failure. [10]

Plays

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Maxine Wood Dead; Playwright Was 87". The New York Times. April 15, 1993.
  2. ↑ "March 25, 1921 - Image 6". The Detroit Jewish News Digital Archives.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "UI Collection Guides -Maxine Finsterwald Papers, 1928-1983". collguides.lib.uiowa.edu.
  4. ↑ "Vassar Chronicle 28 September 1946 — Vassar Newspaper & Magazine Archive". newspaperarchives.vassar.edu.
  5. ↑ Office, Library of Congress Copyright (November 16, 1934). "Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 1. [C] Group 3. Dramatic Composition and Motion Pictures. New Series" – via Google Books.
  6. ↑ https://findingaids.uflib.ufl.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/289560
  7. ↑ Activities, United States Congress House Committee on Un-American (November 14, 1955). "Hearing[s] Before the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Eighty-fourth Congress, First-second Sessions". U.S. Government Printing Office – via Google Books.
  8. ↑ https://findingaids.library.cmu.edu/repositories/2/resources/67
  9. ↑ Burrell, Julie (March 27, 2019). The Civil Rights Theatre Movement in New York, 1939–1966: Staging Freedom. Springer. ISBN   9783030121884 – via Google Books.
  10. ↑ "Obituaries: Elsewhere (Maxine Flora Finsterwald)". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. April 16, 1993. p. 39 – via newspapers.com.
  11. ↑ Watson, Evelyn (December 4, 1914). "Patsy from Dakota: A Comedy in Three Acts". Eldridge Entertainment House – via Google Books.
  12. ↑ Barlow, Judith E. (December 4, 2001). Plays by American Women, 1930-1960. Hal Leonard Corporation. ISBN   9781557834461 – via Google Books.
  13. ↑ Pawley, Thomas D. (1982). "Three Views of the Returning Black Veteran". Black American Literature Forum. 16 (4): 163–167. doi:10.2307/2904227. JSTOR   2904227.
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