Word: criticize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...homely girls made him burst into hysterical laughter. He thrilled with the hope of being kidnapped. Charles Dickens and Louisa M. Alcott were his idols. To confidants he showed a collection of photographs of Broadway celebrities, remarking: "That's what I'm going to be ... a dramatic critic." He kept a diary, whose cryptic opening words were "Shakespeare. Circumcision...
...youngest (27) dramatic critic in the U.S., he soon became a "formidable figure on Broadway." Woollcott liked to toughen his skin by jumping into the most nauseating jobs. Rejected for combat service in World War I, he got over to France, measured corpses for coffins and "had the time of my life" as an attendant in a venereal ward. Later, he became reporter for Stars & Stripes, wrote front-line stories that were "one long whoop of glory." He was blissfully happy. One of his friends was asked: "Where was Aleck while we were celebrating [the Armistice]?" "Probably in a corner...
...newspaper [in Montreal] published a critic and not so nice like every one else. . . . Immagine, this said that I ... am lower of ... Julia Culp!" From Havana he wrote: "... A newspaper say a good thinks and in the same day say bad thinks." His love letters might have been a literal translation of an aria: "My Big Piece of Gold," he wrote from tour, "you make me feel so emotionated that I start to cry again! I reed you and skratce my head because it seams that all my breans . . . is full of you." Of five-month-old Gloria: "Then...
Married. Deems Taylor. 59, popular, mellow-toned composer-critic; and Lucille Watson-Little, 20, whom he met at the Florida winter headquarters of the current Ringling Bros. Circus, for which he arranged the music and she designed costumes; he for the second time, she for the first; in Arlington...
...Other votes: two for Harvey; one each for A Bell for Adano and / Remember Mama. One critic voted that no award be made...