Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went north to Manhattan, has lived there since. Last week at the Charles L. Morgan Galleries, Manhattanites enjoyed an exhibition of the best recent paintings by this prodigal son of the Mexican Renaissance. Composed in refinements of the squat, circular Maya forms, sophisticated, inventive, winning, to many a critic, Chariot's pictures of Mexican laborers and tortilla makers (see cut) were a welcome contrast to the present work of his old friends...
...Said Critic Lewis Gannett, emerging from the Fair: "Not all the keen wits of all the 110 publishers frantically pursuing manuscripts can discover 10,000 books worth printing in one year. . . ." In bringing out books they know they cannot sell profitably, publishers have likened their dilemma to that of a man shoveling on a dying fire coal that he knows contains a lot of slate. If he stops shoveling, the fire will go out; if he keeps on, the slate may smother it. Only one book in ten sells 20,000 copies, only six novels in ten sell...
...engaged in throwing furniture at him, she is crying her eyes out over his latest amour. The amour in this case is Olivia De Havilland who uncovers a flare for comedy and a winsome appeal that she has not displayed previously. Eric Blore, as Mr. Howard's butler and critic, succeeds in stealing most of the scenes in which he appears. The supporting cast is adequate but unexceptional...
Both talented pianist and lively music critic is Arthur Loesser of Cleveland. Morning after he played in a recital, there appeared in his Cleveland Press column a picture of Critic Loesser, an other of Performer Loesser. Wrote critic of performer: "Mr. Loesser seems to have been bitten by the irritating bug of wanting to do something farfetched. . . . Mr. Loesser succumbed to his favorite vice, that of listening to the sound of his own voice. . . . The Scarlatti pieces were not badly done, chiefly, because their atmosphere of refined wisecracking is congenial with Mr. Loesser's personality...
...Chicago critics have often been polite to the Woman's Symphony but its performing ranks have seethed with jealousy, its feminine management has been beset by cliques. Headed by diamante-bodiced Mrs. Keith, the orchestra board dropped Ebba Sundstrom. Last week Conductor St. Leger, despite his flourishes and foot-tappings, was praised by Critic Cecil Smith of the Tribune for lightening the symphony's habitual "humorless heavy-handedness." Next month First Violinist Gladys Welge, favorite of one group of players, will try her hand at conducting. In February, Conductor Erno Rapee (Radio City Music Hall) should settle...