Word: criticizers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. J. Brooks Atkinson, dramatic critic of the New York Times; to Mrs. Oriana Macllveen, in the Municipal Building, New York. Meanwhile Irving Torrey, the bride's father, performed his duties upstairs as clerk in the office of Borough President Miller...
...Critic Sherman...
...History is what men have tacitly agreed shall be the truth." So commented a recent critic, and doubtless the scribe's Midas-fingers do convert much tinsel into gold. Yet, occasionally, there is no need for alchemy. James Amps, for many years closely associated with Theodore Roosevelt as butler, valet, "head-man," recently in Collier's sketched an intimate portrait of the Colonel's last days. The President had been a jovial man. He would tell a story of how he had loaned $200 to a "Rough Rider" friend to pay a lawyer for his defense after...
...Perhaps the most venerated axiom of criticism is the theory that the pass of time invariably sifts good pictures from bad, destroys the latter, and holds up the former to the admiration of succeeding generations. It is a comforting theory. It convinces the connoisseur of his good taste, and solaces the nameless artist for years of neglect. Just why it should be believed remains a mystery, for all too often the evidence points to its converse. Artificial flowers last longest." Thus, some years ago, wrote a critic. Last week his view was given singular proof in a London auction room...
...issue" of Vanity Fair ever published, a Sesquicentennial Number. Though the Sesquicentennial achieves little prominence except its mention on the cover, an arraignment of Manhattan's last theatrical season in 67 compressed capsules of reproof give to the issue an appropriate Quaker tone. Mr. George Jean Nathan, a critic steeped in theatre lore, discerning though scurrilous, able though loud, composed the 67 indictments with nice variety of language. A few follow...