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...piece of art criticism, the casual and untutored comments expressed indicate a lack of critical discipline wholly to be deplored in a thinking community. I suggest that Mr. Savadove would do well to enroll in an introductory course in art history before his college career is over. Sylvan Barnet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gross Barbarity | 10/30/1951 | See Source »

Regardless of what people are told, there will always be those who decide that Walden Pond is a good place for a picnic. These people, impressed by the sylvan mutterings of Thoreau, will meet many, many more just like themselves at the old cabin site, and will find pleasant, quiet picnicking a difficult task indeed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Picnicking Lures Travelers To Beaches, Wooded Areas | 5/4/1951 | See Source »

...careful search by Toomey and other policemen disclosed an expensive grey coat in one of the men's room stalls. The owner, Nieman Fellow Sylvan Meyer, was found an hour later. He claimed that he had left the coat on the top floor and had no knowledge of how it got to the men's room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sergeant Toomey Captures Alleged Thief in Emerson | 2/21/1951 | See Source »

...apparent that the few movie stars who can act come from Broadway. Most movie moguls prefer to overlook this, but occasionally there are exceptions. One Mr. S. Sylvan Simon, of Beverly Hills, California, deserves another swimming pool for realizing that Kanin's blonde chorus girl could only be played by Miss Holliday. Her Billie Dawn is not just dumb, or beautiful; she is charming in a down-to-earth way, and is wonderfully alive. The kid has a personality as big as a house...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/15/1951 | See Source »

...loose strings at the end of the main plots. The movie missed, too, on the character of Jaques. The uncommon melancholy which Thesiger puts into his part set up perfectly the profound lines that come later; in the movie, Jaques was just another member of the banished duke's sylvan court...

Author: By Edward C. Haley, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 12/14/1949 | See Source »

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