Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Moonfaced, blue-shirted Richard Watts Jr. (Herald Tribune), was formerly the H. T's cinema critic. Boyish (Broadway's loudest heigh-hoer of good-looking actresses), he is also thoughtful (Broadway's briskest champion of social-minded plays). Often acute, Watts chiefly errs in being too rhapsodic about what he likes...
Slight, bespectacled Brooks Atkinson (Times), a reserved, dryly humorous Yankee who writes books on travel and Thoreau. As the Times's critic, he has by far the greatest single influence on box office. Cultivated, impishly able to carve a "turkey" with the best of them, he is now & then a sucker for high-toned emptiness, sometimes recoils from the sweaty and disagreeable. His perfect dish: Our Town...
...night last week Secretary of the Interior Harold LeClair Ickes, most vociferous U. S. critic of the U. S. press, rose to tell the New York Newspaper Guild and a radio audience what he thought of "calumnists" (columnists). He prefaced his remarks with one of his own ventures in prosody...
Wright moved East, wrote books and criticism, grew a beard, affected a monocle. He went to work for The Smart Set, a sort of pretentious pulp, became its editor and transformed it into what Critic Burton Rascoe called "the most memorable, the most audacious, the best edited, and the best remembered of any magazine ever published on this continent...
Died. Willard Huntington Wright, 51, critic and (under the pseudonym of S. S. Van Dine) detectifictioneer (Philo Vance) ; of coronary thrombosis; in Manhattan...