Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This description of Ever Since Eve, published by William Randolph Hearst's New York Mirror the day after the picture's Manhattan premiere last week, was written by the Mirror's able cinema critic, Bland Johaneson. Since Hearst readers have long been accustomed to such eulogies of Cinemactress Davies' efforts on the screen, the fact that Ever Since Eve, far from being a high spot in the season's light fun, was actually a new low in its star's uneven career did not constitute news. What did constitute news about the picture-which...
...this year became an LL.D. of Russell Sage College (Troy, N. Y.), an L.H.D. of University of Syracuse and of St. Lawrence University (Canton, N. Y.). Columnist Thompson was the commencement speaker at all three colleges. Abreast with her for first place on the 1937 kudos list was solemn Critic Van Wyck Brooks, whose Pulitzer Prizewinner, The Flowering of New England, brought him Litt.D.'s from Bowdoin, Columbia and Tufts. Vassar's Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay got a Litt.D. from Colby, an L.H.D. from New York University. Two LL.D.'s apiece went to Cordell Hull (University...
...critic Henderson never minced matters. He called Marion Talley "A Chamber of Commerce soprano with a phonograph voice." He wrote of a soprano singing Iphigénie en Aulide that "she seemed a fit subject for the sacrifice." Because the Metropolitan put on too many Fausts in the 18905 he called it "Das Faustspielhaus...
...music at Harvard and later in Germany. In 1885 he went back to Providence, his birthplace, and wrote editorials and reviews for its Journal. For two years he was secretary to Senator Dixon of Rhode Island. For eleven more he was the New York Tribune's assistant music critic, working with Krehbiel. When Henderson left the Times in 1902 he proposed Aldrich as his successor. Until 1924, when failing health made Aldrich write more sparingly, his articles, as oracular as Henderson's, proved the wisdom of the choice...
Aldrich was a stutterer. As if by compensation he wrote rapidly, seldom revised. On his 70th birthday, the late Adolph Ochs, publisher of the Times, wrote to him: "You did your work with rare intelligence and conscientiousness. Your labors as a critic constituted a public service. . . . You held high the best traditions of journalism and of the New York Times . . . helped much to make the Times a powerful force...