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...Becomes Electro, the Queen in the Gielgud Hamlet, the Mother of Jesus in Family Portrait, Lady Macbeth to the Macbeth of Maurice Evans. Quiet, practical, an actress without frills, she has less glow than Actress Cornell, less glitter than Actress Gordon, greater range and resourcefulness than either. Of her Critic Percy Hammond once remarked that, unlike other actresses, she could be "reticently excited." And she is painstaking. For the great sleepwalking scene in Macbeth she persuaded Johns Hopkins doctors to hypnotize a patient, and then copied the results...
...realize what this war means. It is simply that its meaning has become so obvious as to be both platitudinous and commonplace. The stuff of tragedy is rapidly becoming as easy to swallow as water. And even though it might look like gin to the public, no discerning critic can get drunk on water. Anderson et ilk seem to insist on taking the short cut to universality, and it invariably leads them to brutality...
Radio may have to change the stock answers which it has given to critics of its daytime serials. It has always reminded such critics that they may not like soap operas, but some 20,000,000 U.S. women do. But last week a critic who had to be listened to (Hooper survey's Dr. Matthew N. Chappell) confronted the networks with some cold serial facts and an intelligent reading of them...
From now on nighttimers will be offered samples of such daytime "classics" as Big Sister, Second Husband, Bachelor's Children, Joyce Jordan, Pepper Young's Family. CBS Critic-Author Gilbert (The Seven Lively Arts) Seldes, spent a fortnight listening to "every bloody thing" on the daytime networks before choosing 14 of CBS's daytime serials to offer night listeners. Says Seldes: "Our daytime programs are beyond criticism-socially speaking...
...fellow painters (Corot once refused 10,000 francs for some pictures, asked the buyer to give Millet's widow a ten-year 1,000-franc annuity instead). But as Bachelor Corot grew older, his pictures grew more effeminate, his landscapes became more wishy-washy, more virginal. Famed Critic Julius Meier-Graefe once summed up what was wrong with Corot as a painter by remarking that he "lacked the grain of poison which is the preservative of greatness...