Word: criticizers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Name the theatre critic who says the Manhattan stage is corrupt...
...pain. Perhaps other people were similarly affected by that earnest study of a dissatisfied newspaperman who abandoned his wife and wandered around until he got another man's wife, whose Negro servants laughed to see such sport. If so, here is solace. For with due respect to Critic H. L. ("Hatrack") Mencken and the allegedly significant Chicago school of fiction, young Mr. Hemingway has sat him down and written a not altogether respectful parody of Mr. Anderson's vein. You can just see all the gay young men of Paris laughing over it at those luncheons. One Scripps...
They are not an unusual sight at the annual spring salon in the Grand Palais, where all the artists of Paris carry their best work of the past year for public exhibition. Yet such was the number of undressed ladies that one exasperated critic went back to his newspaper and wrote, "It isn't a salon, but a bedroom...
...exasperated critic notwithstanding, there was really a great deal to see besides bedroom ladies, some 3,500 works in all-processions, cavalcades, crosses, St. Anthony in a dozen poses, cardinals, heroes, canals, churches, inscrutable dishes of fruit, chaotic spasms of pigment labeled "Mood," "Flight" and other rapt generalizations. . . . There was a sturdy young Russian landscapist who has been studying of late years at the Philadelphia Academy, Captain Vladimir Perfiliev, erstwhile of the Don Cossacks. He had painted the grim mountains of Montenegro and the bright Balkans beyond, and if you went with him to his studio he had some very...
...Russian short stories, those which comprise the French sense of form, length and breadth, and that more puissant Russian one, depth, and its accompaniment of tears. The result is "great closeness of texture with profundity of form." As a sub-variant of the short story subject in general, the critic points out the supernatural in particular as a growth indigenous to the Germanic and English soils. It is interesting to discover that in the present book there is at least one story avowedly of this class, really two, but one escapes exact definition. The story of the supernatural, "Miss Mary...