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Through this cloudy background of tragedy, there penetrate the necessary shafts of laughter. Yet the vigorous values of the play rest in the sting and glitter of its melodrama. As such, it is one of the finest plays that has developed from...
...classics. There is no trace of modernity in his reading of them, just as there is no affected classicism in his reading of the moderns. It is his theory that when one listens to a piece of music, one listens to a period of history, and if the background is anachronistic, one hears nothing. With scrupulous regard, he presents the works of the old masters as he believes they would wish them presented. Now he is looking for the American Beethoven...
Since he has been writing the book columns of The New York World he has developed a large personal following, and for a good reason. His reviews are brilliant, carefully conceived, and show a background of reading which is unusual in one of the young- or so-called "young"-school of criticism. I suspect him of being impatient with daily journalism, yet I wonder if he is not too nervous, too eager a mentality ever to be contented to confine his abilities to the writing of novels and plays. He is one of those persons whose nervous energy drives them...
Most of the credit goes to Mr. Ochs. He is a very modest man who keeps himself far in the background, yet he is the power which has made the Times go round. "I am no genius," he explains. "All one needs is common business sense, common editorial sense, and a common sense of responsibility." But anyone who glances at a tabloid career of the man whose greatest achievement is the building of the Times can hardly avoid raising a skeptical eyebrow and asking "No genius...
Business still hangs suspended between hope and fear. The background is too strikingly encouraging for merely a "quiet confidence"; on the other hand, the omens in the industrial world are still too obscure for certainty as to conditions during the coming season. Most business men are entirely ready to do something strenuous very quickly, only they are not yet certain just what it is they should...