Word: criticizers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Hubbard has a large following and is very well known throughout the country as a critic of the first rank. He is not a college graduate, but has taken a great interest in the work of the colleges; and it is expected that in his talk tonight he will make some timely remarks on that subject...
...Late Shakespearean Productions" tomorrow afternoon at 4.30. On Thursday afternoon, Mr. Crawford of Yale will talk on "The Modern Playwright and his Relation to the Newer Staging" and on Friday Mr. Thomas Wood Stevens, of the Carnegie Institute of Pittsburgh will speak. H. K. Moderwell '11, dramatic critic of the Transcript, will speak on Saturday afternoon and evening...
...America teams; from East and West, from real editors and near coaches, come suggestions for a combination of the mightiest of the mighty. Yet what do they all avail? The Western theorist's team is an all-Western team with a couple of easterners as a sop to eastern criticizers, and vice versa with the eastern theorist, only here it has been the custom to have at least a majority of players from the critic's own college. It is all so much wasted effort. Those who could do the best job keep quiet; conditions of the past have changed...
Nevertheless to say that "the opinions of the professional critics are no longer of any worth even as individual opinions," and that "as it (Professional musical criticism) now exists it is utterly useless", is to imply the non-existence of the type --lamentably rare, it is true--of well-trained, level-headed professional musical critic--a manifest injustice to the few distinguished men without whom the profession would indeed be discredited...
...playwriting, or acting is a man's aim, the Dramatic Club is the training school here that will do the most for him, as has been seen in the past with such men as E. Sheldon '08, Allan Davis '07, and others. It is absolutely necessary for the future critic to know the theatre and its company from behind the scenes, and even the future composer can acquire his mechanics here. It cannot be too forcibly urged on men in the dramatic arts that co-operation is the absolute requisite of success. Personal exhibition can have no place here. That...