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    Maxine Finsterwald

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    Born1906
    Marion, Wisconsin
    DiedApril 7 , 1993
    NationalityAmerican
    CitizenshipUnited States of America
    Alma mater
    • Wellesley
    • Cornell
    • Carnegie Institute
    Occupation
    • Radio scripts
    • Plays
    • Short stories

    Maxine Flora 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]

    She was born 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 innthe 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]

    She died of congestive heart failure.[10]

    Plays[edit]

    • Giants in Chains (1928)
    • The Severed Cord (1929)[1][11]
    • Seven Against One (1930)[1]
    • On Whitman Avenue,[12] staged on Broadway in 1946[13]
    • Sandals and Golden Heels (1948)[1]

    References[edit]

    1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Maxine Wood Dead; Playwright Was 87". April 15, 1993 – via NYTimes.com.
    2. ↑ "March 25, 1921 - Image 6". The Detroit Jewish News Digital Archives.
    3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "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 – via Google Books.
    10. ↑ "Obituaries: Elsewhere (Maxine Flora Finsterwald)". 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 – via Google Books.
    13. ↑ https://www.jstor.org/stable/2904227&

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