ELWYN B. ROBINSON DEPARTMENT OF SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
CHESTER FRITZ LIBRARY
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA
GRAND FORKS, NORTH DAKOTA 58202

MAXWELL ANDERSON PAPERS

COLLECTION: OGL #50 (addition)

DATES: 1923

SIZE: 1 item

INTRODUCTION

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).

ACCESS: Available for inspection under the rules and regulations of the Department of Special Collections.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

This addition to the Maxwell Anderson Papers consists of one manuscript entitled “White Desert”. The play was written and produced by Maxwell Anderson in 1923. The play opened at the Stamford Theater in Stamford, Connecticut on Friday, October 12, 1923 and after two performances moved to New York City. It was only seen by a total of 328 Broadway theatergoers before closing.

This manuscript has been reassembled by Allan Anderson, Maxwell Anderson's son, in 1984 from several incomplete versions. Allen Anderson noted why he reassembled the play. “First, because of the author's emphasis on the vital importance of verse in drama; second, because of the strong defense of the sexual equality of women which is basic in the character of the heroine and which runs headlong into the hero's extremely distorted view of sexual desire.”

The manuscript was numbered Volume 15.

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