Word: critics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...marriage of catastrophe with a courageous heart." That, for this writer's money, is fine writing. Perhaps, if Mr. O'Neill took that sentence for the theme of a new drama based on the five "years of silence and suffering," he would create the great play your critic estimates he has not created in The Iceman Cometh. FITZROY DAVIS Evanston...
...world premiere of Song of the South was scheduled for this week, with appropriate Hollywood razzle-dazzle, in Atlanta, the only city Uncle Remus himself really knew. The movie's success in the South, which unabashedly dotes on the good old days, is already assured. The film critic of the Atlanta Journal (the rival Constitution's onetime editor: Joel Chandler Harris) went on a special junket to Hollywood for a preview. He has pronounced the picture fully as great-if not anywhere near so long-winded-as that other Atlanta-premiered movie, Gone With the Wind: "There...
...unkind Manhattan ballet critic felt that she had said everything that needed saying...
...Critic Brown, who normally spends more time on books and Broadway than at the movies, dropped in to see the British-made Brief Encounter. He liked its lack of glamor...
Schlesinger expertly plays the role of the good biographer in this remarkable book which deals with Conant the man as well as an age which found him the dominating figure in American life. The historian proves an objective critic, his testimony gives credit to his skill as reporter and writer...