Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...WORLD OF GEORGE JEAN NATHAN (389 pp.)-Edited by Charles Angoff-Knopf...
Critic George Jean Nathan was once told that an angry theatrical producer had called him a pinhead. "That is on the face of it absurd," retorted Nathan. " Tin-head' is a two-syllable word." The dean of U.S. drama critics has been nipping his lip at the American theater and the people in it for 46 seasons. He has outlasted the combined Broadway runs of Abie's Irish Rose, Tobacco Road and Oklahoma!-and in continuous performance. Plays have to ring down the curtain around 11 p.m.; Nathan never does...
Mercury associate, Charles Angoff, has reached back over 34 years, dusted off Nathan's personal Five-Foot Shelf of writings (some 39 books) and pieced together a Nathan sampler. Sipped, The World of George Jean Nathan is a delight; swallowed, it leaves a faintly rusty taste on the palate, like water too long in the taps. With malice toward some, Nathan has his say on every subject under his sun. Examples...
...come on the scene who want to be producers. They know nothing so they put on trash. The cry is 'young blood.' Bosh, young blood has corrupted more fine things in this world. It needs to get just a bit stale." About as stale, perhaps, as George Jean Nathan, the Fabulous Invalid's fabulous...
Officers of the Radcliffe Yearbook for next year have been chosen, Rachel Mellinger '52, outgoing editor announced yesterday. They include Holly Walker '53, Editor-in-Chief: Betty Jones '53, Managing Editor; and Jean Ross '54, Business Manager...