Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week grey Richard Aldrich, 73, died of a brain hemorrhage. To hard-bitten compositors on the New York Times his death meant no more scroogy handwriting to labor over reverently. It also meant the passing of an institution. Richard Aldrich was one of the two deans of musical criticism in the U. S. The other dean, Critic William James Henderson, 81, of the New York Sun, wrote a fine tribute to the man who had been for 40 years his friend...
Three days later in his west side Manhattan hotel, weak from influenza and nervous collapse, aged Critic Henderson stopped writing an essay on Pianist Josef Hofmann, placed a .38 revolver in his mouth and with one bullet completed the ending of an epoch in U. S. letters...
...apprenticeship on the New York Tribune, worked for brief spells on the Morning Journal (now the New York American), Financial & Mining News, as business manager of the Standard Theatre. In 1883 Henderson joined the staff of the New York Times, and four years later he was made its music critic. But editors did not forget Billy Henderson's fine news stories on the death of William Henry Vanderbilt and the blowing up of Flood Rock. When, in 1889, the great flood destroyed Johnstown, Pa., the Times sent him to get the story...
Even the least fastidious movie goer would not mistake his identity. . . . I fear your most admirable movie critic has fallen to the depths of grammatical hyperbole...
...realized by its first issue last week was debatable. Much of what it had frozen on its 90 pages, well-cushioned with advertising at both ends, was routine pressagent photography. But the textual interpretations of current U. S. moods, fashions and philosophies as seen in the Cinema, were impressive. Critic Richard Watts Jr., Director Rouben Mamoulian, Author Jim Tully, Singer Mary Garden, Scenarist Homer Croy contributed...