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...Until it folded on the eve of World War II, The Criterion, though its circulation never exceeded 900, was one of the most distinguished literary magazines in the English-speaking world.*In its first issue (March 3, 1923). baffled, brash, bumptious TIME reported that The Waste Land was rumored to have been written as a hoax. *Alec Guinness, Irene Worth, Cathleen Nesbitt, Robert Flemyng, Ernest Clark and Grey Blake. *Not a badly lined pocket, as poets' pockets go. Friends estimate that Eliot makes about ?4,000 ($11,200) a year, including some ?2,500 of royalties from his books...
...While resting under the care of a specialist at Lausanne, he finished The Waste Land. He sent it for criticism to his friend, brilliant, erratic Poet Ezra Pound,* who blue-penciled it down to half its size. The poem first appeared in 1922, in the first issue of The Criterion, the small literary magazine which T. S. Eliot was editing with Lady Rothermere's backing,† The Waste Land turned out to be the most influential poem of the 20th Century...
...government obviously has the right, in this case as in most others, to withhold its money from those who are plotting its downfall. But the dangers of the provisions here, as elsewhere, are manifold. First, the criterion of present of past membership in one of the groups may disqualify many extremely loyal people; second, the entire loyalty test will discourage many talented students from applying for scholarships; third, as part of the check, professors would undoubtedly be asked to report on their students' political activities, creating an atmosphere most unfriendly to scientific research...
...More Money. The meeting lasted only 30 minutes. Then Attlee took his wife to a matinee at the Criterion to celebrate their 28th wedding anniversary. The play was a farce based on the plight of rich Britons stranded in a swank Swedish hotel after having spent all the money (?50) Attlee's government allows tourists to take out of Britain. At one point, a player remarked wanly: "My accountant has forbidden me to die until the Tories get back." Attlee just smiled...
...second criterion is that the Western should not be adulterated with extraneous, non-western material. "Buffalo Bill" worries about the problems of old age in America, "natural" vs. "scientific" medicine, journalistic responsibility, and the degradation of royalty as it wallows in its plot; "Western Union" sticks to putting up its telegraph line. "Buffalo Bill" gapes for minutes at a time at its overdressed heroine--it was a dour day when someone discovered that Alexis Smith in tights, watching a bar-room brawl, could pull in millions of dollars from audiences that had formerly found Westerns beyond comprehension...