Word: unkindnesses
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...would be a shame to set down one's first impression of the book; for to slang Lewis Carroll for not coming up to expectations in a collection of early fragments is pointless and positively unkind. Verse and prose, most of it is nowhere near "Alice"; and it is only when disappointment becomes too profound that something like the following comes to the reader's rescue...
...distinguished prelude to this gayety, there occurred the Vienna première of Intermezzo, newest opera by Richard Strauss. He, its composer, has lately been unkind to Vienna. Only last month, he refused to conduct the Viennese Opera unless the government granted him a huge salary, complete autocratic powers, a once royal palace for the duration of his life-this at a time when the Viennese are living on rations. But Vienna could not do without him. He alone could be the central jewel of a reconstructed crown...
...Paris, is the capital of Jugoslavia. There I, earnest singer, appeared in the title role of Tosca. I stabbed the Baron Scarpia of the piece so vigorously that I broke my stage property knife. I got five curtain calls, and was pleased with this tribute to me, after my unkind treatment in the U. S. (TIME, Oct. 26, 1925) and my recent failure to secure a stage in Paris, even after buying, as I thought, an opera house for myself...
After all these unkind remarks have been unburdened from the critical conscience, it must be stated that What Price Glory in spite of its unflattering likeness to the play by the same name, to the Big Parade, is still a well-photographed, stirring, exciting picture. When Victor McLaglen came ( the scene, a marine in the audience almost jumped to salute...
...beauty of his music, and free the ear from distraction by the eye, he had hidden his orchestra in gloom (TIME, Oct. 18). But he had placed himself under a refulgent yellow spotlight. The latter, he explained, was a necessary evil. A conductor must be seen by his men. Unkind critics said that Dr. Stokowski had been bitten by the David Belasco show-off bug. The kindest ones declared that by making himself a cynosure, Dr. Stokowski had spoiled his hoped-for effect...