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...More fun for the writer because of his freedom in the choice of subject, and less for the reader because of the reviewer's obvious lack of the long listening experience and mature judgment that mark the work of most of his New York colleagues. In addition, the Crimson critic has the consolation of being almost functionless in a practical sense. No matter how many stones he may throw, not a ripple will disturb the bustle and equanimity of the musical world of Boston and environs. He cannot destroy a budding artist nor stir up a nation-wide controversy...
...Many a critic of OPM considered Bill Harrison too easygoing, too unimaginative to do a bang-up production job; and Nelson himself recently complained that Harrison was a disbeliever in conversion. But Nelson holds that Harrison was a victim of OPM's faulty direction, has faith that he will deliver the goods. Into Harrison's lap also falls the ticklish problem of subcontracting-with Financier Floyd B. Odium, who made the most recent unsuccessful attempt to solve it, moving to a nebulous post as "adviser...
Best-known and most ebullient of U.S. lecturers on the drama, New York World-Telegram Critic John Mason Brown annually faces clubwomen in most of the 48 States, spends as many nights in hotel rooms as in his own bed. The gusto he throws into his lecturing he has also thrown into a book about it. Accustomed As I Am (Norton; $2) makes amusing copy of a lecturer's occupational hazards...
...books, shouting: "Historians' English is not a style; it is an industrial disease." In its place he developed a lively and somewhat overarch Guedalla English which soon helped to make biographies almost as popular reading as novels. It also boosted the sales of his books (as one critic observed with Guedallan acidity) "within measuring distance of the giddy heights attained by Mr. Edgar Wallace and Miss Elinor Glynn." It was a style nicely adapted to describing the molting eagles of Napoleon I (The Hundred Days) and the tacky grandeurs of Napoleon III (The Second Empire...
Calvé's Carmen, which she first flaunted at U.S. audiences nearly 50 years ago, is poorly preserved by her bosomy photographs or the cavernous sounds of her model-T recordings. One critic, the late Henry E. Krehbiel, better recorded her effect on the half-fascinated, half-scandalized audiences of her day: "She presented a woman thoroughly wanton and diabolically equipped with the wicked witcheries which explained, if they did not palliate, the conduct of Don José. . . . In some respects [she] left absolutely nothing to the imagination." Calvé herself loathed the role, but she sang...