Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mauretania, weighted down by the titles of his high offices: Secretary of the European International Reform Association; European Commissioner of the World Prohibition Federation. His -presence in the U. S., he declared, is no longer needed. Reason: the U. S. is thoroughly dry. George Jean Nathan, dramatic critic (Judge, The American Mercury), came down the gangplank of the Aquitania with a message: "All over France I found Pilsener at 12½ ?a glass, and ice cold, too." Capt. Robert Dollar, 84-year-old President of the Dollar Steamship Co. (San Francisco), reached New York on the President Van Buren, rested...
...knows her own Negro maid. Jewels are stolen from the apartment. The owners unexpectedly return from Europe. The virgin is taken to jail. Things look bad, but they are set to rights and the virgin gets a husband in the scion of the Park Avenue owners. Said Carl Helm, critic of the New York Sun: "Of course, we may expect things like this during the hot spell, along with the hives and sunburn, the difference being that you can do something about hives and sunburn." Be that as it may, Miss Alney Alba who plays the virgin is a pleasant...
...same day, Singer Bori, Diplomat de Ligne, Architect Gilbert, Bishop Manning, Arthur Churchill, Actress Collier, Aviator Lambert, Preacher Fosdick, Actress Mitzi, Constable* Protheroe-Smith. Critic Nathan sailed, variously, by the Roma, Majestic, Paris, Carmania, Lapland, Minnesota; and Oilman Pratt, Publisher Doran, Brewer Doelger arrived on the Berengaria...
...audience in the effort to discover which are best. They will be examined by five exceedingly able judges who, if none of the offerings are good enough to get the prize, will award the money to the "development of creative musical work in America. . . ." The five: Olga Samarov, onetime critic (1926-27) New York Evening Post, concert pianist, divorced wife and friend to Leopold Stokowski; Leopold (Anton Stanislaw) Stokowski, conductor of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, by some able critics considered the world's best symphony conductor after Toscanini; Rudolf Ganz, Swiss pianist, composer, onetime (1921-26) conductor...
Died. Alan Dale (born Alfred J. Cohen), 67, for 33 years incisive dramatic critic of the New York American (Hearst), longer employed in that work than any other Manhattan critic; suddenly, of a heart attack, on a train running between Plymouth and Birmingham, England...