Word: critics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...short-lived American Spectator (1932-35), the slim, elegant Nathan and hulking, tousled Mencken battered at boneheads and "dingdoodles" (Nathan's pet epithet for self-satisfied know-nothings). When Mencken died two years ago, his meat ax seemed as anachronistic as a halberd. But Critic Nathan-though the day had passed when he could kill a play with a quip-remained an acute and acidulous observer of the theater whose only visible sign of mellowing was his decision last year to enter the Roman Catholic Church...
...last, impish say on the state of the American theater. "It seems," wrote he, "that we still have with us the volunteer embalmers who are yapping that the theater is dead. The theater will live as long as there is one pretty girl left on its stages." For Critic Nathan, the Chinese lanterns were still blazing...
...nerveless ("I never get stage fright") old pro, London-born* Joyce Grenfell, 48, stumbled onstage by accident in 1939 as a sideline to a happy career as wife (to Mine Director Reginald Grenfell), a radio critic for the Observer, and sometime writer for Punch. She was dragooned into a London revue after a party performance. She later collaborated with Wit Stephen (Gamesmanship) Potter on BBC comedies, by 1955 had played outstanding bits in movies (Genevieve, The Belles of St. Trinian's) and her first solo revue in London...
Died. George Jean Nathan, 76, drama critic; in Manhattan (see PRESS...
Aldous Huxley, 63, is now so venerable a figure of modern letters that a middle-aged critic-the Atlantic Monthly's Charles J. Rolo-owns a poodle named Aldous. Evelyn Waugh, 54, never reached the same status of a chic literary household pet. But, unlike poodles, both writers-two of the century's most gifted entertainers-are no longer quite fashionable. Both have had the premature burial of collections in their lifetime, Huxley's latest prepared by an anonymous Harper editor, Waugh's by Rolo...