Word: criticizers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Terrible murdered his son, and Catherine the Great had one of her ladies-in-waiting "flogged through the trap."* The high point of the performance was a scene showing the astute Tsar Nicholas I cajoling the revolutionary poet Releyef into betraying his associates in conspiracy. Wrote the dramatic critic of Isvestia: "One came away hating the Romanovs like so many viperous snakes...
...whole. An opera requires musicianship but it fails without the accompaniment of theatre. So Signor Gatti-Casazza selected the creators of the Henchman. Edna St. Vincent Millay, poetess with a dramatic sense, was to write the libretto (TIME, Jan. 17); Deems Taylor, composer of concert music, onetime music critic of the N. Y. World, would provide the score...
...reports were carried on the front pages of the press. Miss Millay's libretto was superb: "sensible and singable," quaintly flavored. Only the gum-chewers' Daily News, whose music critic signs herself "Debutante," found the opera lacking in distinction. She falsely announced: "Alas! Those who came . . . may not have scoffed but they certainly did not remain to pray...
...dynamite expert, suddenly, at Peabody, Mass. He arranged 75 sticks of dynamite in a circle, stood in the centre, set them off. Died. Lucy Maynard Salmon, 73, ranking professor at Vassar, who created the History Department in 1887; at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Died. Georg Morris Cohen Brandes, 85, historian-critic, Danish Jew, "Dean of European culture"; following an intestinal operation, in Copenhagen. He criticized the Danish government for its reactionary tendencies, the Church for its formalism, the University of Copenhagen for its intolerant dogmatism; was exiled in 1877. Invited to return in 1883 he became popular, especially for his humanized...
THIS DAY'S MADNESS ? Anonymous?Bobbs Merrill ($2.50). The author of Miss Tiverton Goes Out still wishes to remain anonymous. Her critics still fatten their admiration upon their curiosity. Critic William Lyon Phelps, politely rebuffed by her publishers, went ahunting "this superior intelligence" by himself, and discovered its identity. But lo! when he came to divulge her name, it had escaped him. Said he: "A name totally unknown to English and American letters. It might have been Miss Abercrombie or, for that matter, Miss Fitch...