Word: criticizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Referring to the great Bolshevik playwright, a critic contended that the author explains in the preface the intended inner revolutionary meanings of the play. But how wide is the gulf between Lunacharsky, as a prefacial explainer, and Lunacharsky as a dramatist. The play is based on sex and mysticism-religious mysticism at that...
Music, a monthly at 35? the copy and $4 the year, will shortly list itself among the cultural magazines of the country. Its editor is one who, as a famed critic, has slain, his ten thousands and praised his thousands. It is Deems Taylor himself...
Heywood Broun, famed theatre critic: "In a play criticism I concocted a mixed metaphor: 'It is not unreasonable that it [the Provincetown Playhouse] should occasionally bring forth base metal...
Regarding the title, opinions among first-nighters are divided into two camps, the Right holding that "Who's Who" means what it says, and no more; the Left standing firm for the suspicion that the authors are having fun with the customers. Your critic's opinion is that the title is very good for its purpose...
...Taylor is not the first critic who was also a musician. Robert Schumann, it will be remembered, was also such a combination. And, strangely enough, Schumann is best beloved by many for his charming Scenes from Childhood. Whether Mr. Taylor is really a musician who writes criticism, or a critic who writes music, will perhaps be decided only 50 years from now. What is important at the present moment is that he has produced a score that may be fittingly placed on the same shelf with MacDowell's lovely little Marionettes and John Alden Carpenter's Adventures...