Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stand-pattish conclusion: "Our primary concern must continue to be with those who really know opera and support it, those who believe in its basic pattern, those who love opera for what it is, not what someone else thinks it should be." There was no immediate response from Met Critic No. 1 Billy Rose. George Sloan's shafts had been flung just 30 hours after Billy (see PEOPLE) had flown off on a trip around the world...
...Trib's Sunday Columnist Lucius Beebe, appearing on radio's Author Meets Critic, gave the back of his white suede glove to Saturday Review of Literature Columnist Bennett Cerf, for lifting other wits' anecdotes. Said Beebe of Cerf's newest joke book: "Really an autobiography of Jimmy Valentine...
...week before Christmas, the New York Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson composed an open letter to Santa Claus (alias Billy Rose). All that Composer-Critic Thomson wanted in 1949 (from the hands of Producer Rose): "A really modern [medium-sized] operatic repertory theater ... a quality operation." As for grand opera, said Thomson: "Leave all those outsize 19th Century works" to the Metropolitan, "till they and the Met collapse together...
...little action. The rape scene got listeners on seat edge, but the other scenes slowed down to the speed of a grade-school tableau. Even the Herald Tribune's Thomson was disappointed: "There isn't enough music to hold the ear." Wrote his opposite number, Drama Critic Howard Barnes: "Music without a play...
Before a Senate subcommittee investigating business profits last week sat U.S. Steel Corp.'s Ben Fairless, giving the Senators the facts on his company's high earnings. Midway in his testimony, Wyoming's hawk-browed New Dealing Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, veteran critic of big business, opened up on a favorite subject: the steel shortage...