Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...presentation of "Lilies of the Field," John Hastings Turner's comedy, by the Radcliffe Idlers at Agassiz Hall, is unusual among amateur performances in that the play was distinctly less interesting than the acting. Such at least was the verdict of the CRIMSON critic, who saw little to his taste in the coy tale of two Campfire girls (more or less) adventuring in dear old London. The acting of the Idler comediennes, and their Radcliffe colleagues, though marked by the common defeats of amateur theatrics, possessed enough freshness and spontaneity to lift the performances above the average of its kind...
Irving Trust Co. faced its funny new task with equanimity last week, announced that the magazine would continue publication under its present board of funnymen, including Drama Critic George Jean Nathan, Bridge Expert Sydney Lenz. With their help Irving Trust hopes to pull Judge out of receivership...
...Alexander Woollcott wrote a play," he continued. "He had been a dramatic critic for years, and when his play was shown the other critics got together and blew it up?they made...
Lionel Barrymore's success in cinema has recently been more marked than that of his brother but he is not now, nor has he ever been, equipped with that peculiar glitter that surrounds his brother. The fact that Lionel's nose is too blunt for any critic to have described him as "an elegant paper cutter moving through the drama" may somewhat account for this. He is neither a dope-fiend nor a drunkard; he seldom abuses critics in print and he made his stage debut at 15. Like his brother, he later tried to be a painter...
...fame to two great artists and in turn these two great artists find a small share of their immortality in two great actors. Sir Henry Irving in the last years of the nineteenth ventury played Becket before the gaping mouths of many Londoners in such a fashion that one critic was moved to say, "when you saw old Irving stand before his altar and say the words Becket never really said, you wouldn't give a thought for all the historians in the world." And even now Walter Hampden walks upon the stage with thin Castillian face, sharpened...