Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lauritz Melchior (Sun. 2 p. m. NBC-Blue). No. 1 Wagnerian tenor is guest soloist with Frank Black's orchestra on RCA's Magic Key program. Other guests: Critic Clifton Fadiman, Actress Helen Claire...
...years reserved, Harvard-bred New York Times Critic J. Brooks Atkinson wrote reviews as sober and dignified as a Times editorial. Atkinson left the pun-making and funmaking to such colleagues of those days as Heywood Broun, Alexander Woollcott, Percy Hammond, George Jean Nathan...
...ruckus even drew some notice from the pontifical pen of New York Times Music Critic Olin Downes. Said Pundit Downes: "A four-voiced fugue, in the best Benny Goodman style, would be something, though just what defies the imagination...
Died. Alma Gluck (real name: Reba Fiersohn Gluck Zimbalist), 54, famed Rumanian-born soprano, wife of Violinist Efrem Zimbalist, mother of Author-Critic Marcia Gluck Davenport; after long illness; in Manhattan. In the early days of the phonograph some singers' voices did not register well in certain ranges, but Mme Gluck's registered perfectly. Her recording of Carry Me Back to Old Virginny sold more than 1,000,000 discs...
...blamed. Twenty years old this fall, P. E. A. numbers only 10,500 of the nation's 1,000,000 educators, but its cocky. 33-year-old executive secretary, Frederick Lovatt Redefer, was able to boast truthfully last week: "We are no longer a rebel group." Its leading critic, white-thatched Professor William Chandler Bagley of Columbia's Teachers College, concedes that this little group today wields a dominant influence in U. S. education...