Word: critics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Professional Children s School, which does not train child actors, but educates them and where classmates are apt to turn up of a morning with dyed hair or altered features. These Lds thought nothing of playing such parts in Arsenic as a pair of motherly old poisoners, a drama critic who loathes the theater, a clank who thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt, a killer who tries to look like Boris Karloff. Old hands at small-fry roles, as grown menaces the kids virtually never missed a cue muffed a line, threw away a laugh nor bungled a shudder. Down front...
George Jessel helpfully reminded them that even when spelled right their name sounded "too much like crumb, dumb and gum." He suggested that they cabbage the name of his good friend, then the New York World-Telegram's drama critic, Robert Garland. One Gumm sister, aged 11, decided to make a clean sweep. Hoagy Carmichael's Judy was a song she liked just then, so Frances Gumm has been Judy Garland ever since...
This immediately sent political reporters into long columns of feverish speculation. They examined this meager phrase, with all the care of a music critic listening to Lily Pons hitting the F above high C in the mad scene from Lucia. Was Mr. Dewey now a millimeter's distance more available? Or less...
Kroyt's English is strictly from Odessa. Once in Australia, a noted critic was introduced to the Quartet. Said the critic to Kroyt: "I have just met your wife." Said Kroyt: "Thank you very much." Kroyt fishes from a motorboat on the Potomac. Like the others, he sees very little of his colleagues socially. Each has his own set of friends...
...shock and wishing later I hadn't. ... He made a mistake-and it can't be undone-I just hope they won't kick him to death while he's down." Clifton Fadiman, in his last month as The New Yorker's book critic, was reported by friends to be playing with the idea of running for Congress. He emphatically commented: "Ridiculous!" Old Sports...