Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ziegfeld Follies (presented by Mrs. Florenz ["Billie Burke"] Ziegfeld; staged by Bobby Connolly and John Murray Anderson; settings by Watson Barratt and Albert R. Johnson; songs by Billy Rose, Vernon Duke, Samuel Pokrass and Dana Suesse). Florenz Ziegfeld spent only $13,000 on his first Follies in 1907. Critic Percy Hammond called it a "loud and leering orgy of indelicacy and suggestiveness." A huge success, it began a tradition for gorgeous extravaganzas. Every year, with a mounting disdain of money, Ziegfeld put on a new edition of his Follies. After 1910 all but one opened in Manhattan...
...Preisser. It has good songs: "Suddenly," "Moon About Town," "I Like the Likes of You" and "To the Beat of the Heart." It has flocks of pretty, nimble girls, twittering in and out, nearly lost behind beautiful costumes. And, above all, on opening night it had in the audience Critic Hammond to announce that it ". . . breaks all known records for public obscenity...
...Francisco found its home talent gratifying. For brevity's sake Conductor Dobrowen had omitted the first movement but young Alexander Fried, San Francisco's most level-headed critic (Chronicle), found that the slow second movement had "emotional nobility" in spite of the instrumentation's technical shortcomings, that its jazzy third movement has "as just a place in a Yankee Symphony of this generation as a minuet has in a Mozart Symphony of the 18th Century." With the Bacon Symphony Conductor Dobrowen shot his last bolt until March. This week Conductor Bernardino Molinari takes over the San Francisco...
Boorstin is First Marshal of Phi Beta Kappa, a member of the editorial boards of the CRIMSON and the Harvard Critic. He prepared at Tulsa High School and is a resident of Eliot House. Schlatter is one of the leading scholars of his class, an editor of the Harvard Critic, and is a resident of Lowell House. Goodwin, who is also a member of Lowell, is, like Boorstin, an editor of both the CRIMSON and the Harvard Critic...
...knob. . . I only wish that all other matters could be dispensed with so easily." Elected an honorary life member of the New York Evening Sun's Sun Club was Elder Statesman Elihu Root, 88. onetime (1905-09) Secretary of State, Nobel Peace Prize Winner (1912). onetime Sun dramatic critic, onetime Sun attorney. He accepted a .silver card of membership, commented: "This makes me a bimetallist...