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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...duty, brightness, not rationalism, verve, not meditation. She speaks with distressing boldness. A bespectacled small-statured man of 41, named Joseph Deems Taylor, has written many a musical composition, among the more popular of which is a suite for orchestral rendition called "Through the Looking Glass." Onetime music critic of the New York World, he has attracted much attention to his commentaries because of his extremely readable but authentic criticisms. Signor Gatti-Casazza* is happy to announce that an opera collaborated upon by these two and named The King's Henchman will be produced next season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: In Boston | 6/7/1926 | See Source »

...river under the broad moon. It was a strange token for such a book, through which the pulses of many lives smite vividly, stirred by a magnificent raconteur, who can make of his pen a witch's twig, a sword, a paint brush. A Welshman, Author Jones is dramatic critic of the San Francisco Examiner. This is his first novel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Shilling | 6/7/1926 | See Source »

...like to maintain under the name of truth. The American Mercury will never cure Mr. Babbitt nor will Mr. Babbitt cure the American Mercury of incipient megalomania. Both are facets of the uncut diamond which is American life: both are, in their particular fashion, delightful or disgusting as the critic may believe at the time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BABBITT COMPLEX | 6/3/1926 | See Source »

...excellent, especially the flight of wooden ones on which they mix Charleston and Russian with occasional departures from the norm. Al Mitchell can return to Roseland. He and his band are not absolute necessities. In fact Mr. Arlen would not abide them. He would do just what a certain critic did the other night, only more so. Which after all as the birds which nest on the towers of Our Lady of the Evening would complacently chirp is something

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 5/12/1926 | See Source »

...Chicago critic define a Dybbuk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quiz: May 10, 1926 | 5/10/1926 | See Source »

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