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...Broadway the success of a play is usually determined by the drama critics of the New York papers. There are a few exceptions, such as "Tobacco Road" and "Hellzapoppin," that succeed in spite of bad notices, but nine times out of ten if a critic says "No" you may be sure the play will fold shortly. The success of a motion picture depends very slightly on critical acclaim. Proper exploitation and the star system have been developed into a fine art in Hollywood. It is advertising that accounts for a picture's financial success. And to Hollywood, money...
...that keeps the god alive. Defiantly the man shatters the god's sacred altar, forcing the god to destroy him and, in so doing, to destroy himself. The opera had so little drama in it, such paucity of stage movement, that New York Herald Tribune Critic Virgil Thomson labeled it "a secular cantata." The music seesawed in a narrow range between lyrical sweetness and sonorous majesty, soaring but once to fervent heights. Yet the opera could not be dismissed as a flop: it was fashioned with expertness, flavored with individuality, imbued with an inner spark...
Radio's most untrammeled critic last week put out a little book that was, like himself, benignant but free from bunk.* As an introduction to broadcasting, and as a try at a sound point of view on the subject, it had few predecessors and no up-to-date rivals. Everything defensible in radio it defended; )'et its strictures and warnings came opportunely at a time when U.S. radio faced the responsibilities of its first...
...audience at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House what language they thought opera should be sung in. What a question! Operas are given there as they are written, in French, German, Italian. But last week the Metropolitan Opera Guild collected a jury in its famed red-and-gold interior. Critic Olin Downes argued for opera in the composer's language. Ex-Prima Donna Florence Easton pleaded for translation into the audience's tongue. Metropolitan Stars John Brownlee and John Carter sang parts of Rossini's good-humored The Barber of Seville, first in Italian (hushed attention), then...
...lecturer was Robert Coffin, a hulking, fat-jowled Belgian swing critic known to hot jazz devotees as author of the first serious book on the subject: Aux Frontières du Jazz (1930). Critic Goffin both looked and sounded authoritative. "Tiger Rag" said he, "is the second tableau of a quadrille I used to dance to in Brussels as a boy." Phonograph records illustrated his points...