Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most of the New York critics wrote sidestepping reviews. They were dealing with home talent. Librettist Stokes, who used to be critic of the Evening World, was a friend. The polite applause was described in the New York Times as "the most enthusiastic reception given any native music drama that has been produced in New York in ten years.'' No one mentioned the hissing which came from the back of the house after the dream scene of the 15th native work to be produced by the Metropolitan...
...Suzanne" and "My Lips Betray" are so little alike that the dramatic critic feels sorry not for the readers, but for the puppets which were so unflatteringly calumniated. He attributes the erratum in Saturday's paper to the remarkable variations in the Hollywood Kultur.--Ed. Note...
...Charles Dennis was managing editor of the News. When the War broke he had what he considered the best foreign staff of any U. S. paper ready for action. Harry Hansen, now the New York World-Telegram's book critic, followed the German army through Belgium. First description of Big Berthas to reach the U. S. came to the Daily News from Raymond Swing in Berlin. Lewis Edgar Brown was with the Serbian army that retreated through Albania. His reports were re-cabled from Chicago to the London Times. In London, Edward Price Bell got interviews with Lord Grey...
Died. Montague Marsden Glass, 56, writer, music critic, expert cook; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Westport, Conn. The Jewish cloak & suit men he met in his law practice served as models for his famed characters, Abe Potash and Mawruss Perlmutter...
Highlight of the exhibition was a cool grey-green canvas, square at the end of the gallery, called Summer Wind. Many critics hailed it as the most effective nude of the season, not excluding Eugene Speicher's magnificently painted figures at the Rehn Galleries (TIME, Jan. 22). Artist Brook's good friend Critic Edward Alden Jewell of the Times went further, called it "a particularly arresting embodiment of youth, animated by the sort of resilient 'lift' that sculptors know as the Greek inhalation." Alex Brook's paintings are no longer for amateur collectors. Admirers...