This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1937.
Events
January 9 – The first issue of Look magazine goes on sale in the United States.
January 19 – BBC Television broadcasts The Underground Murder Mystery by J. Bissell Thomas from London, the first play to be written for television.[1]
May 14 – BBC Television broadcasts a 30-minute excerpt of Twelfth Night, the first known television broadcast of a Shakespeare piece. The cast includes Peggy Ashcroft and Greer Garson.
The American academic librarian Randolph Greenfield Adams writes a controversial Library Quarterly essay, "Librarians as Enemies of Books", complaining of librarians downgrading books and scholarship in favor of other tasks.[6][7]
^Kaser, David (1978). "Adams, Randolph Greenfield". In Wynar, Bohdan S. (ed.). Dictionary of American Library Biography. Littleton, CO: Libraries Unlimited. pp. 2–3.
^Leach, Robert (1995). "Introduction". In Tretyakov, Sergei Mikhailovich (ed.). I Want a Baby. Studies in drama and dance. University of Birmingham. ISBN0704416204.