Word: criticizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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State personages and their wives are commonly accorded Courtesy of the Road by local officials. Would Critic Eldridge have this U. S. custom abolished...
...Just so long as it is present beneath all the superficial glamor and excitement, attendant on his return, the class reunions will remain vital and justified. On the other hand when the time comes when it is the glamor that affords the attraction, and the glamor alone, then the critic will be justified in demanding the abolition of an outworn tradition...
...racetrack tipster who spotted winning horses with 75% success would be the greatest tipster in history. But a drama critic who forecasts with 75% correctness the financial result of Broadway plays, is only a mediocre seer. Last week Variety published its annual box score of Manhattan theatre critics. Seven of twelve men from the leading dailies made scores of .75 or better...
...dignified, grammatical J. Brooks Atkinson of the Times (.798) who, in turn, ran second to the winner, baldish, bespectacled Robert Littell of the Evening Post (.809).* Prognosticating a play's financial luck has but little to do with that synthesis of taste, dogma and analysis which is dramatic criticism. It is a question of audience psychology, of knowing what will make the playgoing mass guffaw, snivel, clap its hands. Thus Critic Littell's victory may have surprised friends who knew that the 1928-29 season had been his first as a daily critic (with the public duty...
...London's St. John Ervine, who was guest critic of the World for part of the season, who irked many Manhattan intelligentsia, guessed well while he was guessing, scored...