Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...severe plainness it was called a King's Tomb."† The Author. In spite of his name Manuel Komroff is a Manhattanite (1890), Yaleman (of no degree). Having studied engineering, he earned his first pay writing music for the old Kalem cinema, then got a job as art critic. The Russian Revolution lured him to Petrograd, made him editor of the Russian Daily News, then drove him out of the country. Until critics began to hail his spare-time writing, Author Komroff survived by hack-writing for women's-wear and movie magazines. Bland, sensible, he says...
Anyone who knifes a work of art is judged insane, yet every art critic has a list of art works he would like to knife. On nearly every such list is Jean Francois Millet's The Angelus, a calm brown picture of a peasant and his wife standing at prayer in the middle of a field. An ably painted picture, it is deplored because of its ubiquity on art calendars, school rostrums, candy boxes...
This amazing criticism can only be explained on the theory that you have not read the platforms, for whatever else may be said of the Democratic platform, the criticism that it is "not clear to the understanding" is a confession of lack of intelligence on the part of the critic, or lack of knowledge of what it contains...
...went to Europe, won a million dollars at Monte Carlo and saw the Folies Bergere. The first Ziegfeld Follies appeared in 1907-08. Critic Percy Hammond called it "a loud & leering orgy of indelicacy & suggestiveness." Subsequent Follies helped to make Ziegfeld a millionaire, "glorified" a succession of beautiful women,* including Justine Johnstone, Olive Thomas, Marilyn Miller (he called hers "the most beautiful form in the world"), Yvonne Taylor ("she wore the most beautiful tights"), Mae Murray, Lilyan Tashman, Ina Claire, Billie Dove, Mary Hay, Nita Naldi, Marion Davies, Peggy Hopkins Joyce. He was responsible for the fame of Will Rogers...
...GRACE OF GOD? J. W. N. Sullivan?Knopf ($2.50). Brief and intelligent autobiography by a London scientist and music critic...