Word: criticizers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gold Plaques. Dramatic Critic Frank Vreeland of the New York Telegram, onetime (1924) dramatic critic of TIME the weekly newsmagazine, ascended the stage of the Guild Theatre after the first act of the Monday performance of The Second Man, made a speech, presented two prizes. They were gold plaques awarded by the Morning Telegraph (New York) to the actor and actress who, in the opinions of Manhattan daily newspaper critics, gave the best performances of the year. The winners: Miss Pauline Lord for her work in Sandalwood, Mariners; Alfred Lunt, for his work in Juarez and Maximilian, Ned McCobb...
...Glyn originally designated the quality of IT. In April, 1926, Wilella Waldorf, cinema critic of the New York Evening Post, haphazardly ascribed the Quality to Aileen Pringle, cinemactress. Came a pontifical note from Mme. Glyn's secretary notifying Miss Waldorf that while Miss Pringle is considered by Mme. Glyn a lovely little lady, she is not on the official IT list. Only the following are on the list: Douglas Fairbanks, John Gilbert, Gloria Swanson, Vilma Banky, and Rex the Wild Horse. According to most recent advices, Clara Bow has been added...
Engagement Denied. Lillian Gish, 31, famed cinemactress, to George Jean Nathan, 45, dramatic critic, contributing editor of the American Mercury. Said both: "We are good friends. That...
...TIME. He is evidently of the kind that nurses a blind prejudice against everything American. I encountered a number of such people during a recent two months' sojourn in London. Logical argument, ratiocination or even statement of proven fact, count for nothing with this type of self-constituted critic. Mr. Dowse's letter is full of glaring errors and stupidities. For example, he alludes to TIME as being "typically American, quaintly ungrammatical." It is obvious that he knows nothing of Amer. or of the study of language, for the English grammar used in this country is far more...
...critic not unkind...