Word: criticizers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recent English critic has flayed the present literature of his country, and has advised the new writers to cast their eyes backward at the glorious work which was being produced half a century ago. The public cries for bread, he declares, and in return England's young modernists are giving them literary stones. Prose, writers turn out drab, boorish novels, and pseudo poets concoct yards and yards of verse, written "with one eye on Mammon and the other on the Charwoman's Elastic sided Boots". All that remains of a splendid past is an attenuated Hardy in the flesh...
Although there is a large measure of truth in his remarks, this critic, who happens to be Basil MacDonald Hastings, the playwright, may possibly be a trifle severe. Certainly, if what he says is so, it is fortunate for the average American's sense or national pride that he has confined his slings and arrows to his own country. Deterred, no doubt, by a press or other material, he has so far refrained from even mentioning the grim realists of the American school, who have made their happy hunting ground the fancied dullness of the Middle West...
...will refresh the brow-beaten American to hear that no less then London music critic has openly and guilelessly praised an American institution. And it is a nice compliment to the University, or more properly to Dr. Davison, that the Harvard Glee Club is the object of this commendation...
...recent interview with President Coolidge the critic of the London Times expressed a somewhat natural interest in the system of community singing in American schools and assemblies, and especially in the growing love of singing for pleasure's sake. Above all, this gentleman was pleased with the revolution which the Harvard Glee Club has accomplished in sounding the death-knell of the "Bull-Frog on the Bank" type of music, sung by what he terms "merely more or less convivial societies for singing raucous songs with banjo accompaniment"--an astoundingly accurate description...
Married. Peggy Wood, famed actress, to John V. A. Weaver, poetauthor-critic (in American, etc.) ; at Hamilton, Bermuda...