Word: critics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nberg is convinced that his music is slowly winning public approval. Says he: "There is less resistance. Once I was beaten for my music, now younger men get some of the beating." Of Transfigured Night's belated popularity he crowed: "You see! In 1901 a critic said it was like a calf with six feet, like what you saw at a fair...
Dividing the bill with Oedipus-and seeming as incongruous as a fashionable charm dangling from a severely classic bracelet-was Sheridan's 18th Century burlesque of the theater, The Critic. Ragging the playwright's vanity and the critic's venom, kidding the knee breeches off the bombast that then held the stage, The Critic is frequently amusing but fatally long. The Old Vic gave it as bright a production as Broadway is likely to see, and tossed in perhaps the most amazing quick-change that Broadway has ever seen. Half an hour after he had vanished...
Last week in Philadelphia, Around the World was still caught in its own propwash. During one of Orson's magic acts a pigeon flapped to the top of the house, committed a nuisance on the customers. Said one: "The pigeon was a good dramatic critic...
...took ex-Theater Critic Brooks Atkinson six months and a personal cablegram to Joseph Stalin to get accredited to Moscow. Even before he left New York, the Times began going through the red tape necessary to get his successor in. Last week the Times succeeded. It had taken nearly a year and the intercession of U.S. Ambassador "Beedle" Smith to get the visa. Said Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Vishinsky to Beedle Smith: "The New York Times is not particularly friendly to Russia...
...paper has had its share of famous reporters (Frank O'Malley, Will Irwin, Alexander Woollcott, Edwin C. Hill, etc.), and still has a stable of byliners, including Critic Ward Morehouse, Cartoonist Rube Goldberg, Paragrapher H. I. Phillips. By long custom, Sun editorial writers are anonymous and stay that way: Francis Pharcellus Church, who wrote the famous "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" editorial on short notice in 1897, had to wait until his obituary (1906) to get credit...