Word: critics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weekly radio feature on WJAS, Harold Cohen, local drama critic, commented that ex-Copydesk Assistant Whitehurst of the Palm Beach Post-Times undoubtedly told the truth about New Year's Eve in his city and in most other American cities; and, instead of being fired, he should have had his salary doubled, and should be recommended for a Pulitzer prize...
Frank ("The Voice") Sinatra, whose movie, Step Lively, is making the rounds in unoccupied Europe, caused nary a swoon in Stockholm. One critic reported: "Sinatra's a nice boy . . . but there doesn't seem to be any danger of Sinatra fever...
Died. Arthur Symons, 79, British litterateur who outlived the mauve elegance of his contemporaries (Wilde, Beardsley, et al.) to become a respected critic; in Wittersham, Kent, England. As a translator, he introduced to the English-speaking world the Continental refinements of Verlaine, Baudelaire, D'Annunzio. His best-received book, Confessions (1930), was an autobiographical account of an overly sensitive mind lost in Italy and recovered in a British asylum...
...Ministry of Fear (Paramount), as Graham Greene wrote it, was a thriller so lambent with smolderings of conscience and with religio-psychological sidelights that one critic compared it with Dostoevski. In the film version these murky glimmerings are gone, and the thriller's glow is thus considerably dimmed. But it is a tensely directed (by Fritz Lang) and finely photographed show...
...second thought, ex-Critic Atkinson decided that sackcloth & ashes was not the proper wear for civilians: "There is no blame to be attached to New York's attitude toward the war. Circumstances have sheltered New York from the awful fury and the dullness of war." In effect, he confessed a journalistic failure, for he decided that an understanding of what war is like cannot be had by "taking the war news at polite second hand from the newspapers and radio. War cannot be understood vicariously. Only the men overseas can know what it is all about...