Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many in last week's audience wondered what estimate, if put to it, smart Deems Taylor would put on his new opera. As critic for the New York World he once wrote a review of one of his early symphonic works. He found it full of holes but said that the composer seemed to have talent and that he hoped to hear something more from his pen played by the Manhattan orchestras...
Died. Philip Leslie Hale,* 65, artist, onetime art critic for the Boston Evening Transcript and Boston Herald, son of Rev. Edward Everett Hale, who wrote The Man Without a Country; after an operation; in Boston...
...confused with his cousin Philip Hale, music and dramatic critic for the Boston Herald, program annotator for the Boston Symphony Orchestra...
...every spot where Baudelaire is known or supposed to have been, made many a minor find exciting to scholars. Then he settled down on the Riviera to write his book, but never missed a chance of watching Suzanne Lenglen play tennis, of dancing with her. Well-known as a critic, he has also written a play, The Stick-Up. He is now at work on a long critical study of Baudelaire's work, which Publishers Brewer & Warren modestly announce will be "a somewhat fresh interpretation...
Osbert Sitwell, polite writer, never prints an ill-bred remark, never lets his feelings run away with him. To many a critic he seems to lack the generosity of passion; but his chilly wit is often piercing. Of the playing fields of Eton he says: "But then one must remember, that which one did not realize at the time: education in Europe was, unconsciously, a preparation for death, not for life. Events proved it right. They died, as the saying goes, like gentlemen: which was the object of their education...