Word: critics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Names & Numbers. As Witness Menjou stepped down, Chairman Thomas declared a two-minute recess. After that Man of Distinction, anyone else was bound to be something of an anticlimax. The next witnesses felt their fate but did their best. Esquire's Movie Critic John Charles Moffitt fired in all directions...
...movies are fifth-rate theater," announced Critic George Jean Nathan. "No-make it tenth-rate." But he must have been relying on his memories: "I haven't gone to a movie .since women started talking...
...moving, well-sung, dramatic (if occasionally overplayed) Don Giovanni in two acts. With a stylized set, which was made to do for both indoor & outdoor scenes, Halasz simplified Don Giovanni's nine cumbersome scenes without sacrificing any of the music. Wrote the New York Herald Tribune's Critic Virgil Thomson: "The most distinguished piece of work all through that our city troupe has yet produced...
Such consistent success was earned by the diligent exercise of a slender but well-muscled comic talent-a gift, said one critic, for being "obviously obvious about the very obvious." His father, a Dutch banker in London, insisted that John read for the law before starting a writing career. John dutifully did, began writing Young Woodley while teaching English law and legal history at the University College of Wales in Aberystwyth...
...little odd as people are apt to when they are poor and live too much alone," one of her friends confessed in a monograph for the show. "This was especially true during her last years in Rome, where she did . . . one very remarkable portrait of herself." Said one Providence critic after studying the portrait last week: "It is the face of a woman who, looking in a mirror, sees Death...