Word: critics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nose. His face, rosy and puckish, is extraordinarily mobile. His mouth is big, his chin square, his eyes blue and easy-rolling. His hair has nervously changed from red to brown to blond at various stages of his life. Current color: carrot. His hands were once described by a critic as "the most expressive since Eleonora Duse...
Died. Logan Pearsall Smith, 80, critic and essayist whose ironic, japanned prose* (All Trivia, On Reading Shakespeare) brought him only closet fame; in London. Philadelphian by birth, Londoner by choice, he felicitously chronicled small beer and rusticated in Literature Past, only now & then spoke over his shoulder to Literature Present such querulous words as: Why does Ezra Pound...
...hand, lets him publish his scripts in book form. But the reaction has set in. He has been savagely lampooned by Radio Wit Abe Burrows (TIME, Feb. 11). Some call him the "poor man's MacLeish." Assessing his V-E day's On a Note of Triumph, Critic Bernard DeVoto, who rarely likes anything, wrote in Harper...
...opera house. In 1937, when she returned to the U.S., concert and opera managers snubbed her. Last year Concert Manager Austin Wilder brought her to New York, discovered that he had the biggest box-office attraction in Town Hall's 25 years. After her first concert a critic wrote: "A Sinatra demonstration at the Paramount is a feeble thing indeed...
When she sent her accompanist out for a glass of water, it was too much for the New York Times's stodgy critic Olin Downes, who chided her for overacting "both histrionically and vocally." Says Maggie: "That Olin Downes! When I sing about fire, I want people to see the buildings and hear the screaming, and he says 'go away and don't bother me.' He has no soul, no imagination. He is stone cold, like a piece of mutton...