Word: criticizers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William Lyon Phelps (professor-critic) wrote in his department, As I Like It, in June Scribner's magazine: ". . . Sometimes in solitude I explode with laughter; sometimes I wake up in the night to laugh at some memory. How can one help laughing in and at a world like this...
...opened the new Manhattan playhouse of a serious-eyed little group who call themselves the Art Cinema League. The tiny, tastefully decorated cinema house, resurrected from a onetime livery stable is dedicated to "the intellect and the esthetic emotions rather than the cheap sentimentalities and banal melodramatics." Said a critic: "If the first program does not live up to these fine pretensions, there is at least enough stray beauty to justify this lone exploiter of intelligent pictures...
...theatre last fortnight to pay a U. S. poet the almost archaic compliment of hearing his newest work and appraising it. They were Poetess Edna St. Vincent Millay, Kermit Roosevelt, Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Lament, Dr. & Mrs. William Lyon Phelps, Dr. & Mrs. Henry Seidel Canby and many another including Critic Carl Van Doren whose position with the Literary Guild of America made him a sort of esthetic promoter of the evening, and Mrs. August Belmont (stage name: Eleanor Robson), who read aloud for all. The poet was Edwin Arlington Robinson, of a darkling and somewhat chilly New England, singing...
...Mongolia (TIME, Oct. 29, 1923); Dr. William Lyon Phelps of Yale, optimistic critic of literature; Dr. Irving Fisher of Yale, economist-Prohibitionist; Dr. Max L. Margolis of Dropsie College, philologist and Jewish historian...
Some years ago a Paris ugly contest was won by eminent contenders-Novelist Georges Ohnet, Critic Francisque Sarcey and M. Francois Paul Jules Grevy, one-time (1879-1887) President of the Republic. To attract entrants for this year's contest, the promoters made public speeches praising Aesop, Cicero, Socrates and other famed eyesores. Competitors soon came flocking-a fishmonger with warts; a bald female pinhead who claimed to have been in a circus; an Italian Jew with erysipelas; Mme. Grun, a scowling housewife, with photographs of a neighbor whose mouth, she vowed, would admit a whole orange; pock-marked...