Word: criticizers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Granta, published by the members of Cambridge University (yes, the Lampoon's critic is from Oxford) offers an "American number." And besides being American it is a very entertaining number. The jokes are the jokes of Punch, but the hands are the hands of John Held...
This particular talented critic spent the rest of the evening having a good time watching the trained seals in the comparatively sophisticated and profound review current at Waldron...
...Rostova, thus allowing Esther Ralston to prove that she can be quite as intriguing under a black wig as under her own shingled gold. The plot moves quietly along until the moment when Olga Rostova must tell her most devoted admirer in the presence of her producer and severest critic that she is, in reality, no Russian beauty but only poor little Lizzie Stokes. At this crisis, Esther Ralston also proves that she can actually act when circumstances make it imperative. The Wizard is one of those melodramatic mystery cinemas whose plots are based on the misbehavior of a subhuman...
...Author. Manuel Komroff was born 37 years ago in New York City. He received his college education at the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, did post-graduate work at Yale in music and art. After serving as art critic for New York newspapers and as a writer of special articles, he traveled extensively through the Far East, contributing to the Chinese and Japanese press. Married, he lives in Manhattan. Two years ago he published The Grace of Lambs, a collection of short stories which was widely acclaimed. Juggler's Kiss is his first full-length novel...
...These, and many another, pass under Author Ludwig's swift and penetrating scrutiny. In these brief sketches there cannot be the breadth and totality of detailed biography. But there can be and there is the power and discernment that has made Author Ludwig perhaps the most able contemporary critic of great...