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...listen to." For the most part, he is a very acute critic, perhaps the most acute, but he has an uncanny nose for the unpopular attitude. When Toscanini was at the height of his glory and powers back in '36, Haggin thought he was a pedantic Italian opera hack, but now that the aging maestro has very obviously lost his spark, Haggin is daily discovering new wonders of poetic sensitivity and insight in his tired performances. He waited two months after the performance of Shostakovitch's fan-fared Seventh to turn out one of the most magnificently scathing reviews...
...squarely behind the Allied lines and along the Straits of Gibraltar. Estimates of the number of Spanish troops there ran from 100,000 to 200,000. Among them were efficient fighting men-the Spanish Foreign Legion and tough Moors. Short of heavy equipment, they were well enough armed to hack an attenuated supply line. As long as Fascist Premier Franco ran Spain, sullen, uncertain Spanish Morocco would pin down a certain number of watchful Allied troops...
...hands of a hack this plot could be a sentimental monster. But Author Richter handles it deftly, intelligently, against an effective regional background. His studies of children are acute and true. The town of Bisbee, filled with miners from Cornwall, Ireland, Mexico, Sweden, Central Europe, is as lively as a good Western. The passing of the years in mine and home is pictured in clean, brief prose. The writers of 1,000-page epics look pretty paunchy beside Author Richter and his tight, effective 208-page book...
Played in a very effective atmosphere, created by Howard Bay's strikingly simple sets and Moc Hack's Wellesian lighting. "The Eve of St. Mark" tells the truth so plainly, so free from flag waving, that it should rank with the best plays...
...Tokyo, the Universities of Nevada, California and Mexico, knew the Japs well. In 1937, charged the FBI, they hired him to spy on the U.S. Communist Party. Boastful of his long friendship with Emperor Hirohito, he had taught philosophy at New York City's Queens College. As chief hack for Living Age, the Japs paid Matheson $500 a month and expenses...