Word: criticizers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wrote a Paris critic: "Even her faults are charming...
...something of relief to find a play in which scholarship and a sense of beauty are predominant, particularly a play from England, from which domain the deftly decadent effusions of Michael Arlen have this season been most conspicuous. Ashley Dukes, London critic, has written his comedy around a night at an inn, an old time inn, from the shingle of which the title of the play is taken...
...Profession, the only book of his I have ever read, and that because he gave it to me, though once later I heard him read Candida at H. W. Massingham's, and that was enough for me .... Soon The Star was started. Shaw was made Art Critic. I suppose it was writing on art that gave him the idea that he was an authority on the subject, but to this day he does not know the difference between a photograph and a painting .... Our Adelphi Terrace windows looked right into Shaw's.... One day Barrie, who then lived...
...learning and was hunting some mail I came upon the only thing which I dread worse than a bill--a card from my tutor. So I had to chase up to the pleasant-scented, airy, and roomy bulk called Holyoke House and visit "my friend and my severest critic." Needless to say he was surprised and delighted to see me, even offered me a cigarette which I refused, remembering to fear the Greeks even bearing gifts, as Shakespeare said. At once my tutor began to show interest in my having done nothing much in particular. Though I made it look...
Nikolai Evreinov, author of "Mr Paraclete", this year's Dramatic Club production, is, according to Mr. Hale, one of the greatest living Russian playwrights. "'Mr. Paraclete' was written," the Boston dramatic critic said, "at the apex of this Russian author's career...