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...years, flame-haired young Claudia Cassidy grubbed away writing a music-and-theater column for the Chicago Journal of Commerce. Her pay was low but her spirit high: steadily and surely Miss Cassidy became known to an ever wider public as the best music critic in Chicago. Her two 18-carat assets: 1) a shrewd sense of musical values, 2) a gift of writing pointed criticism engagingly. Examples: (after Galli-Curci's ill-fated attempt at a comeback) "Instead of cream velvet jeweled with coloratura splendor there is an unsteady little lyric soprano quavering like a sad ghost pleading...
...special afternoon program the Crimson Network will present Miss Dorothy McGuire, youthful star of "Claudia", today at 4:30 o'clock in an interview with Dick Kleeman and Hal Fleming. Miss McGuire who is said to have created the stage character of Claudia is reportedly the same cute, naive girl in real life that she is behind the footlights...
...Claudia (TIME, Feb. 24). Agreeable women's-magazine marshmallow about a young bride's coming...
...Lloyd Johnson. As she lay dying in a Chicago hospital last week, Lloyd Johnson said he had paid as much of the bill as he could, then had to appeal to the Theatre Authority, clearinghouse for all actors' charities. Sobbed Chicago's Journal of Commerce's Claudia Cassidy...
...days. At the first rehearsal, said Conductor Stock, the overture "sounded like Halifax." But its first playing proved it something else: a fine piece of musical escapism, which took its title Scapino from a character in the Italian Commedia dell 'Arte. Said Journal of Commerce Critic Claudia Cassidy: "A blithe, scapegrace, carefree sort of score, it makes you think Walton must have whistled it when he drove his ambulance through the London streets, spiritually thumbing his nose at Hitler." Last week England's No. 1 conductor, peppery, opinionated Sir Thomas Beecham, led the New York City Symphony...