Word: criticizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stadttheater in Zurich, worked up a dance act and moved on to Berlin. There she played the subway circuit, usually in Shakespeare. The year was inflation-ridden 1923; her weekly salary was 3 billion marks ($5). After she married Weill and became a star in Germany, U.S. Composer-Critic Virgil Thomson wrote: "She is beautiful in a new way, a way that nobody has vulgarized so far." Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya fled the Nazis in 1933 and went to Paris-after Lenya gambled away much of their savings in Monte Carlo. Two years later they settled...
Died. Percy Alfred Scholes, 81, British music critic and historian, witty, unorthodox, occasionally prissy lexicographer, who wrote the entire 1,195-page Oxford Companion to Music; in Switzerland. Most novels are duller than Dr. Scholes's reference book, in which harmony is "the clothing of melody" and "form is one of the composer's chief means of averting the boredom of his audience...
Albert Guerard is a Harvard English professor, and those of us who listened to his tales of Gide and watched Conrad on the psychoanalytic couch may well contend that his place is at the podium, as a critic. Anthony might be a spectator at his own doom, but like most heroes in the Age of the Common Man, he is more tedious than tragic...
Confessions of lost innocence are frequent. Writes Book Critic Lewis Gannett ('13): "I was the pure young man from a Western New York minister's home, who had never smoked more than a corn-silk cigarette, and tried to hold the freshman beer night ... to ginger ale. One learned." Artist Waldo Peirce ('07) admits that "Leavitt & Peirce was probably one of the reasons it took me five years to get a degree, though the B in A.B. didn't stand for billiards...
...fact that "the Edwardian butler . . . has joined the Great Auk, Mah Jong and the snows of yesterday in limbo." Says he: "The change in conditions in English life has made it rather difficult for my kind of writing. Comedy does so depend on prosperity." Once a professional drama critic (for Vanity Fair), in recent years he has habitually left any play after the first act, no matter how good or bad. Rather sadly he recalls that England was once full of the dotty people he wrote about. "But I suppose a couple of wars have made the English more earnest...